Automation took over my daily work — so why am I still sitting in the office for 8 hours?
Am1rSori · reddit · 2026-11-02
An engineer who designs automation systems shares a workflow for reaching out to YouTube indie-game creators: it finds channels matching criteria, checks their content, drafts personalized emails, sends small batches from the studio inbox, tracks replies, and displays results on a dashboard. Work that once took hours daily now mostly means supervising the system and fixing issues.
He raises a broader question: when automation handles most tasks that used to fill a workday, what should the workday look like? Sitting in the office for eight hours while the pipeline runs feels strange. He asks fellow heavy-automators what they do with saved time — new projects, improving systems, or just performing busyness for employers.
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