Microsoft Clinic

Getting-Started Survey

A few questions from Sudharsan before we meet on Tuesday, so we start knowing what everyone brings and what everyone is thinking.

Nothing here is graded and there are no right answers. Your answers are visible to the team lead and to Melissa. Please answer them the way you would answer them to each other, because that is who is reading.

What are you bringing?

What skills or experiences are you bringing to this project — languages, tools, prior similar work, anything from outside CS that turns out to be relevant?

Agentic and AI coding tools

Which of these have you actually used, even a little? Tick everything that applies; "I opened it once and gave up" counts as having used it.

Anything worth saying about how you used them — what for, how it went, what you stopped using and why?

The project

What's something in the project description that excited you?

Going in

What's a question you have going into the liaison meeting on Thursday? It can be about the project, the sponsor, the tooling, how we'll work, or anything else.

Where you'd reach for an agent

The next two questions go together. We're interested in where your answer changes, not just whether you're broadly for or against — most people are keen on agents for some tasks and wary of them for others, and the interesting part is which is which.

On this project, which tasks would you be comfortable handing to an AI agent?

Why those? Anything that depends on how the task is set up rather than on the task itself?

Where you'd want a human

And the other side: which of these would you want a person doing, or at least a person checking closely?

What's behind that? If you're uneasy about agents on this project in general, say so here — a well-argued reservation is more use to the team than an agreeable answer, and nobody is being marked on enthusiasm.

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