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AI Goal: Senior Software Engineer

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Context: Working as a senior software engineer in one of the big techs.

One of the goals for senior engineers in my organization is to identify and implement AI initiatives.

I'm already familiar with and actively using MCPs, AI agents, plugins etc. While they've been useful, it feels like most people in my company are already working on this.

I was curious whether your organization has built or adopted any AI powered tools, workflows, or use cases that have delivered meaningful business value and could potentially be adapted by other organizations as well.

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This is what I can tell you, only fact: Right now in China, companies big or small, are all pushing AI deployment and AI tools build. The result - very obvious people got redundant, including these were involved in all the AI deployment. Some engineers posted online with fear like " i'm asked to build AI tools which i know I'll be replaced, but i have no choice." Believe me, AI changed the world, in a very devastating way.

I'd love to hear more about that. Could you provide more details? Is there a noticeable shift in the job market?

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For now only goal is to not get laid off because I am not AI native.

Also, I am not aware of any company in tech not going through this

Also an eng in big tech and there are constantly new initiatives I think we get asked to think about or do but main value I've found is by solving for my own problems with AI.

Specifically, I built out a workflow layer for my coding agents. One key workflow I use is an end-to-end pipeline that starts with deep researching the codebase, feeds into my custom ralph or goal implementation depending on the scope, and follows through all the way to automated PR review. The upfront engineering investment to get it working reliably was heavy, but the ROI on my daily velocity has been absolutely worth it. But it took a lot of iteration to not generate slop and burn tokens.

Beyond just the productivity gains, the process of building it from scratch was actually the biggest win. It forced me to get hands-on and learn the critical, pragmatic nuances of agentic engineering. I did this all outside of working hours as my own personal open source project. Other folks around me are using it. I don't know how things will shape up but part fear, part curiosity drove me to just try to learn as much as I can with so many things outside of my control.

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