The hardest part of automation is realizing the reasoning inside "repetitive" tasks
DevToD4 · x · 2026-08-17
DevToD4 shared a key insight regarding the difficulty of business process automation: the hardest part is realizing how much reasoning is actually hidden inside tasks that everyone labels as "repetitive."
This highlights a hidden cost in AI implementation: many tasks that appear mechanical actually rely on the tacit knowledge and judgment of human workers. Extracting this logic and converting it into automated instructions is often the most significant challenge.
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