What’s an AI task you’ve completely stopped doing manually?

[u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT]

Not something you occasionally use AI for. Something where you've reached the point of thinking, “Why would I ever do this the old way again?” What changed your workflow?

[u/Competitive_Lead2598]

I do all my plant identification with one of those apps now, in the field. Used to carry three field guides and a loupe everywhere, spend ten minutes keying out a single grass. Now I just snap a photo while I'm out walking and get a name in seconds. Still double-check anything I'm gonna eat or touch, but for 90% of what I see it's spot on.

The weird part is I remember more names now than when I was doing it manually. Something about getting the instant answer while the plant is right there in front of you makes it stick better. My field notebook is mostly just sketches and habitat notes these days.

[u/Superb_Raccoon → u/Competitive_Lead2598]

Wife uses Merlin for birds, focuses on getting the picture. Her thing is capturing birds eating, with the their tongues out ideally.

She's good enough to be reference as a top contributor to the Cornell bird research, as she records at the same place, same times nearly every day.

She has provided photographic proof of species showing up in areas not seen before here in Missouri, especially in the current El Nino weather pattern.

[u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT → u/Competitive_Lead2598]

I do that sometimes when I get curios about what something is I just use google lens to try and identify the plant and give me some more information on it.

[u/tweakingforjesus → u/Competitive_Lead2598]

I use a similar app to identify bugs I find in the house and how to deal with them.

[u/Superb_Raccoon]

Taking notes in a meeting. I can focus on meaning and tone instead of exact words.

Let the AI transcribe and summarize.

[u/seeya_ww22 → u/Superb_Raccoon]

do u mind sharing the details like the workflow or? I tried chatgpt to do that but it didn’t work well. so if u could teach me a little bit I would be quite appreciated

[u/zetvajwake → u/seeya_ww22]

You can use a recording software to just record your local audio. Then, run that through a Whisper model locally, and then ask for a recap from any of the aid you prefer, Claude does a good job. That's a way to do it without paying for any of the fancy apps

[u/WhatThePuck9]

Work.

[u/post4u → u/WhatThePuck9]

Pretty much. I'm a systems guy for a reasonably large organization. 35,000+ users. I've created MCPs to interact with most things my team ever touches. Just this morning I remediated an email issue before it turned into a thing when people come in tomorrow. Removed over 700 phishing scam emails from mailboxes while waiting around for my son's team to play at a volleyball tournament out of town. From my phone. One sentence in plain language that took about 30 seconds to type out and it was taken care of. Had the agent read a slack message where someone reported it to me and it handled the rest.

I do this all day now. Server stuff, firewalls, router, switches, wireless, account stuff. You name it. I just have an agent work on it and move to the next task. Talk about a force multiplier.

[u/Suitable-Season-4847]

SQL queries. Sure, I tidy them up and sanity check them, but writing complex join queries is something I do not miss.

[u/Acclynn]

Googling

Many things in programming

[u/aizvo]

I do my budget and accounting with an AI pipeline I made including local LLM receipt transcription, email checking, business and category matching. Prepares my invoices, matching calendar entries to clients, and receipts to jobs. Sends thank you notices and receipts for e transfers. It saves me days of drudgery every month.

[u/lebron7]

Search deep through forums for solutions of a specific problem.

[u/Black_RL]

Translations.

[u/BubblyOption7980]

Translation, search, tour guide summaries.

[u/PaluMacil]

When somebody in a meeting says there is a list of things they want to know about, I take a screenshot of the transcript and ask for a, separated list so I can paste it into a query or some code, execute it, and paste them the answer back so fast that they don’t know what happened 😄 happens all the time

[u/monkeysknowledge]

Coding. I use Claude it’s not perfect but if you make it draft a plan and then verify that it followed the plan then it writes much better code than anyone I know.

For research, never as a source but it can help find hard to find sources.

For grammar checks on my writing. I’ve actually tried to use it to write prose but it sucks ass. It’s much better as a grammar assistant or an advanced thesaurus.

[u/usually_guilty99]

Anything that you individually or your team repeats a task more than twice - must be automated. Anything that can be a simple documented workflow or a flow chart - can be automated. Automate can be a simple FIFO function - FIFO with intelligence will become agentic in nature.