Shows how a developer with no prior extension experience built a browser extension for user impersonation and testing using AI assistance.
Transcript:
So it goes without saying that a key part of what we do is testing the work that’s big done by developers and validating issues that might be coming from the customer. And that involves logging in and logging out a lot. And there are some tools that you can use to make that a bit easier like one password or last pass. To know what I wanted to do though is show you an extension that one of our developers Julian has put together. And it’s a really good example of how a technical person can really leverage the power of AI and development. Julian had never built an extension for a browser before, but now has built this amazing extension that allows me to save a range of usernames that I need to log in as or usernames that I want to impersonate or URLs that I want to get. I can add, remove and update different usernames here. And then at any point in time, I can just say, great, I now need to log in and impersonate and it’s going to go on login as this person and then impersonate this person. It’s just so powerful and it’s going to save us so much time. But the real story here is that a technical resource has been able to leverage the knowledge they’ve already got to moving to a brand new field of development using AI as a tool.
Shows how AI can build custom one-time tools in minutes, using a New York trip planner with interactive mapping as an example.
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Today I wanted to show you how things have changed a little bit for me when it comes to solving problems. My partner and I are heading overseas shortly. We’ve got about five or six days in New York, and we’ve been trying to plan out our activities. The thing is, I don’t really know much about the York. I’ve never been there. And so trying to get a visual on where everything is has been difficult, working out how far one thing is for another. And so to help what I’ve done is I’ve built a little tool. And the important part here is not the tool, but the approach that was taken. Historically, I would have gone to Google Maps and maybe tried to create a custom map that has all of these pinpoints on it. However, now we’re at the point where we can build these one-time tools in about 15 minutes, and that’s what this tool is. I’d to go through a data collection exercise, we figured out the restaurants we wanted to go to. The shows we’ve already booked where our hotel is all of the different activities that we want to do. And to do that, I just point to AI tools at blog posts for restaurants and at something called the New York Pass for attractions. And rather than me spending time going through and taking that information and copying and pasting it and figuring out coordinates and putting them all on a map, the AI did that for me. The calculation of walking distances is done based on the speed at which we walk. It’s mobile friendly, and so I can host this somewhere and actually have it available for use. And it allows me to then turn things on and off. For example, if we’re seeing a show and we want to go to a restaurant, then you’re aware of the shows are. And here are some of the restaurants that we want to go to. And it’ll tell me how far away it is to walk to these things. My point is that AI is now giving us the power to build these one-time tools in a very short amount of time to solve very specific problems. And even though in this case, the example is personal and travel-related. The concept still applies, whether you’re solving a personal problem or a business problem.
