whats the most boring task you automated away this year

[u/RedEagle_MGN]

I used to spend a chunk of every Monday pulling numbers out of a dashboard and pasting them into an email for my team. It took maybe forty minutes and I honestly hated every second of it. One weekend I cobbled together a script that does the whole thing and drops the summary in our chat before I even wake up. Watching it run the first time felt weirdly emotional for something so boring.

I am not technical enough to call myself a developer, the script is held together with hope and a few forum posts. Curious what everyone else has handed off to the machines. Did it actually free your brain up, or do you just find new boring tasks to obsess over?

[u/wild9er]

So one of our new vendors has a file output format that predates the ice age.

This output is mission critical to some state reporting.

We had to quickly slam together a automation (thank you ai overlords) to pull the binary output, parse it into csv, then uploaded those parsed csvs into sql tables to bring us into the 2000's.