Cloning Myself with AI: Experiments from a Software Manager

"How do I clone you?"

A past supervisor once asked me that. With AI agents now being hyped as workforce replacements, I decided to actually try and automate my job as a Senior Software Development Manager.

I went beyond prompts and built automations to mimic my specific workflow, testing if AI could handle:

Emails: Analyzing requests using our actual source code and internal wikis for context to draft replies.

Solutioning: Automating requirement analysis, technical documentation, and task creation.

Code Reviews: Building an AI to review pull requests in Azure DevOps.

The results were surprisingly close. AI isn't ready to replace me yet, but my experiment revealed its real-world limitations and just how important "context engineering" will be.