Before and After Gen AI

A year ago, writing a script to automate something was a 2-hour task, even for experienced engineers. Today it's a sentence.

Same goal. Completely different day.

❌ Before Gen AI

Google the task. Read three Stack Overflow threads. Copy a half-working example. Fix it. Test it. Break it. Fix it again. Two hours gone.

✅ After Gen AI

Describe what you want in plain English. Get a complete, working result in 10 seconds. Spend the saved time on the parts that actually need a human.

That gap between writing every line and directing what gets written is what generative AI just opened up. Learning to work inside that gap is the whole job now.