antonybrahin

"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.

I will check it out and make the updates necessary. Thank you for sharing that.

I assume you are me.

I haven't done intense tests yet, but based on my preliminary tests, the output is about 80% consistent. The others are like suggesting additional changes.

Interesting point on embedding, I'll research more on that. But as of now, in my knowledge, that's the best available way of identifying close matches. I'll try to find if there are any alternatives.

My target was to reduce the manual work of creating documents, it's definitely a draft, needs to be reviewed by an architect and a QA lead before passing it on. The tasks generated will have the actual actionable task, that can be used for prompting in cursor or vs code.

Yes, it's not tested for large volume yet.

This is not production ready yet, but based on my preliminary tests, the outputs are about 80% consistent. The plan ofcourse is for the architect to review the specs before getting devs assigned.

Hello HN, sorry for coming here late, it was past mid night for when the post was upped by the mods. I'll try to answer all the questions now, thanks for being patient.