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His partner built the compliance app her CTO had refused, in one morning with AI

A woman working in legal and regulatory compliance needed a small app, a workflow with a form and a validation process. Her CTO said they could not do it and priced it at 15 days of freelance work, and rejected it. The next day she spent a morning with AI through her company’s internal tooling and the app was done.

How it works

  1. She asks for the app and is refused
  2. The next morning she sits down with AI in her company’s internal tooling
  3. By the end of the morning the form and validation workflow app is built

Why it’s worth knowing

The app IT priced at 15 days and turned down was finished before lunch by the person who needed it.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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