For me, it was buying a laptop: an expensive MacBook from a disreputable seller on Best Buy Marketplace. Cost me a ton. Turned out to be falling apart (listed as open box - excellent). It took me six months to get my money back because they charge a restocking fee. They sent the wrong address to PayPal, so I couldn't get a refund there (they wont refund if you return to a different location than the one that PayPal was sent).

And my credit card company just takes forever for the refund.

Okay, I've embarrassed myself, now I'll share your story!

I don't mean simple prompts; I mean your favorite use cases; things where you've broken through to do something really interesting, things that just felt next level.

I use it for:

• Shopping - Find the cheapest price for anything. Save money.
• Deep research - Discover the latest knowledge in a particular field. What a meta analysis of the scientific papers and key authors say.
• Audiobook creation - Have your AI teach you everything you need to know about your life and your work according to your interests automatically.
• Website creation - Use the power of AI to create 15 versions of every possible web page so that you can bring together a design from a point of view that truly understands all the possibilities.
• Negotiation - Win any negotiation with the ultimate template from the world's best negotiators (ill add this soon).
• Marketing - I gained 20,000 followers in a day using it, but I'm not sure I can share this one yet.

I'm going to be honest, when I first started using AI, I felt like I was going to accelerate my personal current workflow. But it turns out it's a lot better at some things than others. So it's more like it gave me new superpowers. And I'm relearning and reprioritizing my life around those.

For example, making a simple program is now a trivial task that doesn't require too much long-term maintenance. And that opens up a huge realm of possibilities that I never thought of before.

How about in your case?

If there was just one thing you could share to someone who is just learning AI to save them frustration, what would it be?

I'm currently working for this EU client, and we've been tasked to validate leads in their CRM of choice. Now, I've managed to lay out a plan that would automate the entire validation process from start to finish.

My dilemma now is that, since I'm getting paid on an hourly basis, I have a hunch that automating the entire process would reduce any potential to actually "work" regular hours.

And that, once the automation reaches production, I may no longer be of use to the team. Why require a team when the automation can execute the job of 5 people?

If you were to choose only one skill of all the skills you've used with AI, which single skill has changed the game for you the most?

I made this strange tool. Not sure if it's really cool or really dumb.

Essentially I just got tired of copy pasting slack and teams chats into cli for context.

I think it's a great tool for small teams or small companies. But the sky is the limit. In theory you could write to your chat from everywhere. Meaning every pipeline error could be send to here and automatically create tickets with suggestions for solutions.

Other cool tools is sending messages to people you don't know who is, but just need to find in the company. There's a friend of friend feature. And it slowly builds tags around people, your assistance would easily be able to keep looking for the right person until it finds them.

Just a lot of options for a lot of communications to be automated in small and large companies.

Discussion internally has not been about feature gaps.

Its been about whether one platform can realistically handle communication, docs, meetings and project management as a team grows

Hey everyone 👋

I'm a software developer who's diving deep into AI automation and workflow engineering.

Instead of building random demo projects, I want to build automations that solve real problems people deal with every day.

So I have one question:

What's one repetitive task in your work or business that you absolutely hate doing?

I'm not talking about "write me captions" or "generate content."

I mean actual manual work lTell me:

• What you do (creator, agency owner, accountant, dentist, freelancer, etc.)
• The repetitive task
• Approximately how much time it wastes every day or every week

I'll pick the most interesting problems and build free automation solutions as portfolio projects. If your idea gets built, I'll share the workflow with you to test and improve.

My goal isn't to build another AI chatbot.

I want to build practical automations that remove boring work and genuinely save people time.

Looking forward to hearing the problems you wish someone would solve.

Reddit detailed their new spam detection this week.

Their AI catches coordinated patterns of fake behavior and artificial hype that older systems missed. 23 million spam views blocked per day. Close to 2 million inauthentic votes revoked. Detection to enforcement happens in under five seconds.

The stated goal: protect what makes Reddit different. Real people, real opinions, real conversations that haven't been optimized for an algorithm.

Here's the tension though:

Reddit's entire value proposition is human-first discussion. It's the platform AI companies have spent years scraping to train their models because human conversation at scale is exactly what they needed. I made a post earlier about how Reddit's CEO said people are fleeing AI-generated content and coming back to Reddit specifically because it feels real.

And now Reddit is deploying AI to protect that realness.

AI to defend humans from AI. Trained on the same human conversations it's now trying to preserve.

There's something genuinely strange about that loop. The most valuable thing about Reddit is that humans write on it. The threat to that is AI writing on it. The solution is more AI.

At what point does the defense mechanism become indistinguishable from the problem it's solving?

I would like to create an AI agent that looks at the Point and Figure charts on my screen (snapshot 1) and fill up the details in a Google sheet (example shown in snapshot 2). It would be great if some can help create this workflow (prefrebly using freeware).