most of the AI discourse i see is about AGI timelines or image generators or whatever the latest model benchmark is. but the actual daytoday stuff where it's genuinely useful gets almost no airtime.
i work in office admin and i've been slowly plugging AI into the tedious parts of my job. drafting templated emails that don't sound like a robot wrote them, summarizing long meeting notes, cleaning up messy spreadsheet data before i import it anywhere. nothing flashy. it just saves me maybe an hour a day which adds up.
what gets me is that the costeffectiveness debate people keep having around AI replacing workers kind of misses this middle layer. it's not replacing me, it's absorbing the parts of my job i'd happily give away. the judgment calls, the context, the weird edge cases, those still need a human. at least for now.
curious if others in more adminheavy or operational roles are actually finding it useful day to day or if it's mostly been hype in practice. and not the chatgptforemailsisamazing hot take, i mean actual workflow changes that stuck after the novelty wore off.
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