Automating Boring Tasks
Post Series Making AI Work

Automating Boring Tasks

AI tools are fantastic options for delegating manual tasks that you prefer not to do yourself to save time and effort. Here's how.

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Part of The Making AI Work Series

In Part II of the Making AI Work series, we explored various approaches through which generative AI tools can help us work with information more efficiently.

In Part III, we'll discuss areas and approaches where AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, can:

  1. Help us get started on our tasks by doing the heavy lifting for us
  2. Be the always-available helping hand we can reliably delegate tedious tasks to
  3. Transform our messy resources into finished work
  4. Make some of our chores feel less like a chore

This part of the series aims to help you develop a practice of thinking about how you can free up time in your days by delegating some of the tasks you prefer not doing yourself to an AI tool.

Let's start with where:

AI can help you get started

At my previous company, I was part of a team responsible for app security and performance for several years.

We had to run tests, gather data and write reports for other people and external teams to review.

Running experiments, analysing our hypothesis and gathering test data was fun, but writing the report afterwards was not.

I love writing, but these were business documents written in standard business language and formats — the usual reports you'd have seen, not articles like this one.

This is precisely where AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude would've saved time and spared me 80% of the effort on these tasks.

This is how it would work:

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