“Automation Overload”

Forget manual coding — 2026 is about automating EVERYTHING.

Scripts, bots, AI agents… if it can be automated, it will be.

What’s the first thing you automated this year?

Personally have been struggling with AI coding assistants. Ideas are there, but tokens are usually expensive

agatha40 said:

Forget manual coding — 2026 is about automating EVERYTHING.

Scripts, bots, AI agents… if it can be automated, it will be.

What’s the first thing you automated this year?

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however, it turns out ur post was written by an ai just to grab people's attention

agatha40 said:

Forget manual coding — 2026 is about automating EVERYTHING.

Scripts, bots, AI agents… if it can be automated, it will be.

What’s the first thing you automated this year?

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Honestly one of the biggest things I've automated lately was freelance opportunity filtering.

Scraping projects is easy compared to filtering the useful ones in real time and delivering them somewhere actionable like Telegram.

Ai is a bubble that is soon to burst. There is no base intelligence to build on. It's not just stupid (which could be improved), it has absolutely no intelligence. All it is, is the freak lovechild of a quick google and autocorrect, but ultra fast, as if one speed.

It then wobbles together random strings of code for various steps of an issue and pretends like that's functional code.

Why do you think claude.ai has more and more outtakes over time? Because they build claude, with claude. It gets worse as the issue compound over time.

Honestly the most boring thing — my own freelance pipeline. I had a Cursor + Claude setup pulling project briefs from the Russian freelance boards I monitor, running them through a fit-check prompt against my actual skill profile, and dropping a verdict + draft response into a queue I review in the morning. Took maybe two weeks of weekend coding, killed about 4 hours a day of manually scrolling listings. The 2026 vibe isn't really about automating "everything" — it's about automating the boring shit between you and the actual work, so you spend brain cycles on the part that pays.

token costs @Yoram mentioned are definitely a killer if you run everything through Claude. had that issue last year when i tried to automate a cold email setup. ended up routing the initial scrapers through a local llama3 instance on a cheap vps to do the basic filtering, then only send the actual warm leads to the paid apis for the personalized first line. saved a ton.

honestly automating everything like OP says is mostly hype, but automating lead sorting and account warming is basically mandatory now if you want to stay competitive in outreach.

The goal isn't to automate everything, the goal is to automate the boring parts so you can spend more time on the work that requires human judgment.