How Much Has AI Actually Changed Your Day to Day?

[Louis_Frolio]

Community, I'm genuinely curious: Describe your workday two years ago vs. today in a sentence or two.

I'll go first: then, I spent half my day context-switching between Drive, Sheets, Docs, and Slack just trying to find what I needed. Now, I vibe code small apps with friendly UIs that surface exactly what I need, when I need it. No more scavenger hunts.

The productivity gain hasn't been incremental for me, it's been profound. And that kind of shift compounds fast. So what does your before/after look like? Bonus points if the change surprised you.

Is this becoming the norm out there or am I further out on this than I think?

Please share your thoughts, I'm genuinely curious!

Cheers, Lou.

[Louis_Frolio]

@Ale_Armillotta , your comment "One of the biggest wins for me is documentation and README generation, which used to be heavy, boring, and very time-consuming. " made me think back to when I did "light" software engineering (electronic medical claims submission, long before UB-92 and HCFA-1500 standards) work.  I have OCD about documentation, I focused more on that than the code I had to write.  Now, with the vibe code apps I develop my OCD is assuaged by the beautiful details coming out of the LLM's pen:). Thanks for sharing. Lou.

[Louis_Frolio]

Hands-on knowledge is what lets you catch things when they feel off. Anyone can spin up an app in a few minutes these days—but if you don’t really understand what the code is doing, it’s hard to know what you’ve actually built… or what it might turn into down the line.

I’m not a coder by trade. I did some light coding 20+ years ago, but that’s about it. These days, I know just enough to get myself into trouble. And if I’m being honest, I lean on the model a lot to make decisions for me. Quick reality check—it doesn’t always get it right.

What helps is having just enough context to steer things. I can go to Claude and say, “refactor this for performance” or “clean this up,” and it’ll do it. But there’s always that small pause after—did that actually improve things, or did it quietly break something else?

Thanks for sharing @Ale_Armillotta 

[Ale_Armillotta]

Well honestly speaking. Some months ago I hadn’t a good opinion about the vibe coding and ai coding. This because I never had the chance with my job to work with it and do some experiments. But in the last month I developed a lot of stuff with not so much effort and always perfect (docs, readme, code, comments). 

I think now you can develop everything you want without any kind of knowledge. But unfortunately the AI is not always updated and your knowledge is very important. Also the way how you search information and documents.

For example, some days ago claude with ai-dev-kit and a skill that developed for ai agents on Databricks, didn’t work with updated code. It didn’t know that now the agents are updated with apps and are wrapped with response. How did i fix this? Only because I knew this, with my experience.

At the end of the journey, this means that now we need more senior and unfortunately less junior. This is treu!! Also because in the consulting company the customers are expecting to reduce costs with AI in the process and as is now you need seniors to overcome difficulties.

[HyunsooRyanLee]

Great question! Two years ago, I spent hours battling code errors and needed massive effort just to automate workflows across different sites and SaaS apps.

Now? I barely write code myself, but ironically I'm integrating more tools than ever. The barrier to automation has dropped dramatically. When you design agents well, one person can genuinely cover the work of 2–3 people.

The funny part is, I'm more productive than ever, but somehow busier than ever too. The efficiency gains just raise the bar for what's expected. Still, I wouldn't trade it. The scope of what I can learn and build has expanded enormously, and that's the part that excites me most.

[Louis_Frolio]

@HyunsooRyanLee , funny you should say "The funny part is, I'm more productive than ever, but somehow busier than ever too." Like you I am feeling the pressure to be 100x more productive when I am now 10x more productive than I was 1 year ago!  Thanks for sharing.

[suranga]

What i think is AI hasn’t replaced the hard thinking, it has just removed a lot of the grunt work. These days I spend more time on judgment, review, and refinement, and less on searching, drafting, and repetitive setup.

For Databricks specifically, the biggest shift is that the platform now makes it easier to move faster with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, Declarative Automation Bundles, and Unity Catalog-first workflows, so the work feels more “build and verify” than “build everything from scratch. Even a newbie can quickly do something with Genie only thing we need to do is review it properly.