{"slug": "ask-hn-how-do-you-as-a-normal-swe-use-ai", "title": "Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?", "summary": "A software engineer on Hacker News asks how typical developers use AI in their daily work, seeking practical examples from normal professionals rather than the advanced solo-dev workflows often showcased online.", "body_md": "So am looking for more normal people, experienced people using AI, but I feel like whenever I hit youtube or other platforms the AI culture is way deep in the trenches and don't feel like this is how the majority of people tackle work, especially at their jobs.\n\nWhat I see is mostly solo-devs going full battlestar gallactica on things. And I just want to see other people, normal people talk about and show how they use these new tools.\n\nI'm also more interested in the first principles of things and not necessarily the shiny new model or shiny new workflow or shiny new thing. More towards problem solving.\n\nSo, if you have a bit of time to walk me through how you usually work in a day or point me to some good videos, resources on regular people doing it I'll be grateful!\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965516](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965516)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-as-a-normal-swe-use-ai", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965516", "published_at": "2026-07-19 06:35:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-19 06:50:54.952027+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-as-a-normal-swe-use-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-as-a-normal-swe-use-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-as-a-normal-swe-use-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-as-a-normal-swe-use-ai.jsonld"}}