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What is the most boring task at your company that somehow still needs a human?

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I'm not looking for futuristic AI ideas. I'm looking for the stuff people hate doing every week but nobody bothers to fix because it feels too small. Things like checking whether a payment came in, copying data from email to a spreadsheet, chasing someone for a document, renaming files, matching in…

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  1. 2026-08-28 04:08 · r/AI_Agents
    What is the most boring task at your company that somehow still needs a human?

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