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What's the one thing you still do manually because no AI agent/tool does it right?

2 months ago

Curious what actually frustrates people here day to day.

Not "what would be cool" — I mean the boring stuff you still handle by hand because the existing tools either don't do it, or do it badly and you don't trust them.

Two questions:

What repetitive task do you do almost every day that you wish an agent just handled for you?

Have you tried a tool for it already? What made you stop using it / go back to doing it yourself?

Trying to understand where the real gaps are vs. the hype. Will share what I find back with the sub.

Comments (4)

Emma Tcherkezian2 months ago

Drafting an email of all things. Yes, they can draft but never sound like me and tend to sound AI’ish

xuxzheng2 months ago

Yeah, the 'sounds AI-ish, not like me' problem is real. Quick Qs: what kind of emails hit this most — cold outreach, client replies, day-to-day work stuff? And right now do you rewrite the whole thing yourself, or just tweak a few lines to make it sound like you?

meisan2 months ago

for me its still organizing scattered notes, emails and chat messages into a reliable action list AI helps but i still don't trust it enough to do it completely unattended.

sanqi2 months ago

I still do my own code reviews. AI tools can catch style issues and obvious null checks but they cant tell you stuff like this change will break the billing flow for customers still on the legacy plan. I have tried copilot code review and a few others. Short overview is they flag syntax and patterns fine, but the false positive rate on anything business logic related is high enough that I end up rereading every flagged line anyway.