AI Drastically Cuts Automation Costs for One-Off Tasks
burkov · x · 2026-07-19
The author points out that for one-off tasks, there used to be a dilemma between doing them manually or writing an automation script, as scripting often took just as much time. That dilemma no longer exists: with AI, creating an automation now only takes a single prompt and a few minutes of waiting.
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