A funny story about AI implementation

The company churns out a ton of fixed-template images daily: course covers, promo banners, printed signs, desk nameplates, arm stickers, you name it. It mostly boils down to swapping out text and picking a background from a preset pool based on the category.

Having designers do this manually is a pipe dream. The ops team doesn’t know Photoshop and refuses to learn. Outsourcing it costs 20 RMB a pop.

My day job is UI design, but this chore somehow became my gig. I built a personal project that bridges Excel and Photoshop. Ops fills out a spreadsheet, designers maintain the PSD templates, and my script automatically maps the data into the templates, spitting out images in bulk. Over the past two years, it has generated roughly 150k RMB worth of design assets—enough to hire a few interns j…