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What is was like working in big tech, with the comeup of AI coding
When I interned at Atlassian last summer, AI was blowing up in the coding space. A lot of my peers were afraid to touch it. I took the opposite approach.
I used Cursor and our in-house AI assistant Rovo for as much of the coding as I could. That freed me up to focus on the stuff that actually mattered - structure, architecture, system design. The stuff AI still
gets wrong.
I spent a lot of my time talking to Claude. Asking it for ideas, getting direct feedback, treating it like a second opinion. Claude is often wrong, but it usually has the right direction. So I'd guide it, it'd guide me, and together we'd land on a working architecture and ship it.
Over the three months I was there, AI evolved fast. I was using it way more by the time I left than when I started. And it was obvious - Atlassian wanted us using these tools. They want their engineers leveraging AI to move faster.
By going all in from day one, I finished my project in half the time it took the other interns. That's what stood out.
That's exactly why I built this community - to show you how I use AI day to day and how it's made me significantly more efficient as an engineer.
If you have any questions about using AI in a real engineering environment, drop them in the comments. Happy to share what I've learned.
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What is was like working in big tech, with the comeup of AI coding
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