[dhosek]

The rest of my 6-person team (ranging in age from 20s to late 50s maybe early 60s) has been very reluctant to embrace AI despite the push from our manager to do so. I was very much on their side initially, but creating a few little tools to ease some of my burdens sold me on the possibilities. It does feel like cheating and I have to admit that for one of the tools I built,¹ I haven’t even looked at the code, but rather did a few rounds of back and forth with Claude to make the thing do what I needed and to address bugs that showed up as a result of putting it through some real-world usage.

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1. A Mac menu-bar app to make it easier to know when I need to either do a PR or look at someone’s feedback on my own PR. Clicking the icon shows a list of all open PRs that I’ve created or that my review has been requested on (and clicking an item there will open the PR so I can act on it). If there’s a PR that I’ve not left comments on or approved, or if there are unreplied/unclosed comments on my PR or it’s been approved, a badge is added to the menu bar icon.