Tech workers report AI cuts some tasks from hours to minutes

Business Insider interviewed six technology workers about the tasks where AI tools produced the largest reported time reductions. The workers are employed at Amazon, Google, Apple via a contractor, and the startup Double Nickel. Priyanka Devi Ramesh, a business intelligence engineer at Amazon, said an AI tool called Pippin reduced the time to write and finalize documents from more than an hour to 15-20 minutes.

She added that time saved on one task is redirected to other work such as data cleanup and automation projects. Prerit Pathak, a security engineer at Google, said the Gemini tool now produces meeting summaries in five to ten minutes that previously required one to two hours.

He previously took shorthand notes during calls.

Sarthak Gupta, a data scientist at Amazon, said AI now completes data pulls, transformations, and dashboard refreshes for monthly reports in about 45 minutes of review time after an initial eight-to-ten-hour process. He noted that building the automation pipelines has lengthened his current workweek.

Tanvi Pisal, a UX designer contracted to Apple, said AI reduced the time to draft product requirement documents and user stories from three to four hours to about 30 minutes. She said the largest gains occur in early-stage product thinking. Udit Mehrotra, head of product at Amazon, said AI produces a first draft of product documents in minutes after an initial one-to-two-hour manual process.

He said the remaining work of strategic judgment and trade-off decisions still requires the same time as before. Iren Azra Zou, a software engineer at Double Nickel, said AI coding assistance and automated code review reduced tasks that once took a week to roughly one day.