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I had never coded. With the AI I cut report work from 60 minutes to 2.

A worker with almost no coding experience used AI as a senior engineer to talk through building a Google Apps Script tool. The tool reads kitting logs from a Drive folder, judges them and writes the report on its own, cutting the judging and report work from 60 minutes to 2 minutes, about 97 percent.

How it works

  1. Talks design and errors through with AI over several rounds
  2. Builds a Google Apps Script tool
  3. Log files dropped in a watched Drive folder are read and judged automatically
  4. A Google Document report is generated in 2 minutes
  5. A person still does a final visual check in under 5 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

Someone who could not build software alone shipped a working tool in daily use, and the hour of report work now takes 2 minutes.

Where it’s from

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

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