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by dangus 248 days ago
Despite those mistakes, the utility is undeniable.

I converted some tooling from bash scripts leveraging the AWS CLI to a Go program leveraging the AWS SDK, improving performance, utility, and reliability.

I did this in less than two days and I don’t even know how to write Go.

Yes, it made some mistakes, but I was able to correct them easily. Yes, I needed to have general programming knowledge to correct those mistakes.

But overall, this project would not exist without AI. I wouldn’t have had the spare time learn all I needed to learn (mostly boilerplate) and to implement what I wanted to do.