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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
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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
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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.


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  • April 15, 2026

Excel calculations, consolidation, Vlookups...


Nanette
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  • April 16, 2026

Oof...this is a tough one! Since I handle everything - and I mean everything - for our business, I find myself really leaning into the help of AI with various areas: website/technical improvements and tasks, creating lists of relevant topics for blogs, and campaign strategies. I know there are so many areas I could be more efficient and use AI more effectively.

I’m still learning and, admittedly, have a long way to go! I have a folder full of saved articles, posts, etc. that would probably be extremely helpful with that learning curve...but there just aren’t enough hours in the day!  Maybe I should have AI summarize all of those articles/posts and put together a new strategy for me!!  🤔


GabbyEsposito
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  • April 16, 2026

@Nanette though I am definitely not wearing as many hats as you, I can definitely relate with blogs and content strategies! 


GabbyEsposito
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  • April 16, 2026

@sophieduer ​@MikeKumlin I sometimes take the data capabilities for granted and you just reminded me of how much I don’t miss cleaning/calculating numbers lol


retention
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For me, comparing performance data and look for insights is something Claude or ChatGPT excels at.  Whether that’s from one Campaign to another or Flow’s time interval (week over week, month over month, etc), or across an aggregate (How are my campaigns performing overall, week over week?) This works especially well if you have Klaviyo integrated with Claude/ChatGPT with the MCP connector so you don’t have to download/upload data.


tabish
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  • April 16, 2026

I’m very weary handing off something to AI entirely. Mostly to protect my cognition. I don’t want to offload my cognition to AI, which can, over time, lead to real decline.

Whatever my team and I use AI to do, such as analyzing results, or presenting qualitative analyses, I’m still forcing myself to critically read through it and not take it at face value.

But I have built some automations that I can run on my VPS that allows me to do some custom segmentation work that I would otherwise have to do manually.

So we’re using AI, but not fully handing off. So less Artificial Intelligence and more Intelligence Amplification, if that makes sense.


Typing! Wispr Flow has fundamentally changed my workflow. It has made it much easier to get context into the tools I use (Claude Code, Slack, and everything else), which lets me share a exponential times more information on a daily basis.