18d • General discussion
You are probably automating the wrong task.
The one you picked is visible, annoying, and feels like a good candidate for AI.
But it is the quiet tasks that eat your week.
- Drafting the same response for the third time this month.
- Reformatting the same report.
- Writing a brief from scratch when you already wrote a similar one in January.
You do not notice those because they do not feel dramatic enough to fix.
Here is a better way to find what to automate:
For one week, write down every task that takes you longer than 20 minutes. Just the name and the rough time. Nothing else.
At the end of the week, look at the list and find the most repeated task that follows roughly the same steps each time.
That is the task worth mapping before you touch any tool.
Map it first. Write the steps in plain language. Include what a good output looks like. Include what a bad output looks like. Note the one decision that requires your actual judgment.
Now you have something AI can actually help with.
Most people skip the map. They drop a vague task into a prompt, get a vague result, and walk away thinking AI is not ready for their work.
A clear process is what makes AI useful. The tool just runs it faster.
Which task did you automate this week?
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You are probably automating the wrong task.
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