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There are so many articles/reports championing AI capability and its potential to bring improvements to humanity or our daily live. However, my personal interaction with AI that yields notable result is few and far between. Early this year at work, I had a task that is usually suitable for an entry level programmer to work on, I decided ask Grok and ChatGPT to do it for me. The outcome is amazing.

I needed to resize a few thousands user submitted photos in various dimension into standard dimension and output each resized image to a specific file name format. If I were to actually code up this task myself in any programming language of my choice, I may need an hour or two to complete the work. I know there are many other here can code this up a lot faster but that is not the point. I prompted Grok and ChatGPT to produce the code for me in Java. I just copy the result and compile/run the program. The code works flawlessly. I had to fine tuned the prompt few more times to produce the exact result to my requirement.

In this example, AI saved me one to two hours of my life working on something boring. This is the difference between searching Google, reading Java documentation, compile, debug, execute program cycle VS one working program with few prompts just in minutes. Does it mean junior programmer's job is at risk? If there is less junior programmers, then there will be less senior programmers or architect as time goes by.

In other thread Patrick uses AI in his CSS for the dark mode on this site. Do you have any anecdote worth sharing?