FAQ

How do you actually use AI in your day-to-day work?

People often ask me: “How do you actually use AI in your day-to-day work?”

Here’s a small example.

I needed to check if I could access a project in Atlassian Jira via their API. Someone had shared the API URL with me, but I didn’t remember the exact curl syntax or headers.

So I dicatated this prompt for an LLM:

💬 Prompt I gave AI:

I need to run a curl command against the Atlassian Jira Cloud API to check if a project exists and retrieve its details. Specifically, I want to query:

https://domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/slug

Requirements:

  • Use the official Atlassian authentication method.
  • Use default headers (Accept: application/json).
  • Format the output JSON for readability.
  • Display the HTTP status code to confirm whether the project exists (200) or is not found/no access (404).
  • Deliverable: A ready-to-run curl command that meets the above requirements.

🤖 AI’s response:


 curl -s -w "\nHTTP Status: %{http_code}\n" \
  -u "YOUR_EMAIL@domain.com:YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/SLUG" \
  | jq .

Explanation:

  • -u "EMAIL:TOKEN" → Basic Auth with email + API token
  • -H "Accept: application/json" → Standard header
  • -s → Silent mode
  • -w → Prints HTTP status code
  • jq . → Pretty-prints the JSON

✅ And that was it — a ready-to-run command that worked instantly.

Why did this work so well? Because the prompt was clear, specific, and asked for a concrete deliverable. Not just “help me with Jira API” but step-by-step requirements + expected output.

That’s really the trick: sometimes writing a good AI prompt is just writing a good spec.

A Note on Ethics and AI Use: Transparency is important. For this article, I used AI tools to augment my discussion and explore phrasing, as well as to assess SEO performance and readability. While AI helped refine ideas and highlight optimization opportunities, all insights, examples, and analysis are the product of my own experience and judgment. AI served as a support tool, not a replacement for critical thinking or human perspective.

Posted by Mikhael Santos on September 18, 2025