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What’s one thing you’ve handed off to AI that you’d never want to go back to doing manually?

  • April 15, 2026
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GabbyEsposito
Community Manager
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Has anyone else seen the OpenAI commercial with the generation of farmers? I saw it for the first time recently and actually thought it was pretty good at showing how a career that has lasted centuries can live on with the help of AI. Also a career that I never imagined using AI. Basically, the manual work of documenting, planning, and problem solving is done by AI for a family of farmers. Here’s the link if you want to watch.

Anyway, no matter when you started your career, there’s always been something that used to take way more effort than it does now. Manually pulling lists, writing and rewriting, starting from a blank page every single time, etc.

At the time, it was just part of the job/task. Then a new innovation comes along and suddenly that thing gets a whole lot easier and the nature of your work also seems to be different and maybe your not quite sure how to feel?

I think we can all agree AI is one of the biggest shifts to date. Most of us are still learning and adjusting to it, while also starting to notice things that we never want to go back to doing manually again.

That being said, what’s something you’ve started using AI for that you wouldn’t want to go back to doing the old way? 

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MikeKumlin
Problem Solver I
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  • April 15, 2026

Bulk CSV/Excel file manipulation for sure!

I spend a lot of my time manipulating large swaths of data and often have to upload new profile properties to Klaviyo from our datalake. These data sources can be a bit…. wonky at times so I will use AI (co-pilot in this instance) to help me review the data, which is often hundreds of thousands of rows, and ensure there is nothing in there that I don’t want, maybe it’s leading/trailing spaces, or numerical itemization, or a date formatted in a weird way. 

I no longer need to worry about being an Excel functions master and can instead prompt my AI to do the work for me and then output a squeaky clean file for me to upload.