gluntyAutomate the Boring Stuff With AI Agents
Stop drowning in busywork - turn AI into a tireless crew that runs your recurring chores on your orders, so your hours go to the work that actually needs you.
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The boring 80 percent eats your week
You do not lose your hours to the hard, interesting work. You lose them to inbox triage, reformatting, and summarizing the same kinds of things over and over. That drudgery is exactly what a machine should chew through while you do the thinking.
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It is a tool, not a buddy
AI is not your friend and not your genius intern. It is an axe - a fast, tireless crew of followers with zero judgment that do exactly what you order. Stop chatting with it. Start commanding it.
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Automate the decision-free parts
The hack is not 'automate everything.' It is to split every task into the mechanical work and the judgment calls, then hand the machine only the mechanical part. Sorting, drafting, formatting, extracting - yes. Deciding what actually matters - never.
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Build it once, feed it one line
The amateur re-explains themselves every single time. The operator writes the instructions once - into a saved project, a custom instruction, a template - and after that just drops in the raw material. Set up the machine one afternoon, feed it forever.
Save your best prompt as a reusable project or template, then next time just paste the input and say: run this on it. - 05
A checklist beats a vibe
Vague orders get vague work. 'Clean this up' is a coin flip. A plain checklist of exactly what to do - what to keep, what to cut, what the output must contain - gets you the same solid result on every run. Write the checklist once and reuse it forever.
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Order the format, don't hope for it
Never accept whatever shape it feels like handing you. State the exact output - a table with these columns, three bullets max, this heading order - as a command, not a wish. Followers with no judgment need the mold, or they invent their own.
End your prompt with: Output as a table, columns Date, Item, Owner, Status. No preamble, no summary. - 07
Batch ten, not ten times one
Doing similar tasks one at a time is where the day quietly disappears. Paste all ten emails, all twelve records, the whole pile at once, and have it run the same instruction across every one in a single pass. Same order, ten results, one go.
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Make it show its work
A follower with no judgment will hand you a confident, wrong answer and never flinch. Force it to cite where each claim came from, flag what it guessed, and list what it could not find. Now the lies are visible before they cost you anything.
Add: Quote the exact source line for each point, and list anything you were not sure about. - 09
Never let it hit send
Speed is the whole point, right up until something leaves your hands. Anything that reaches a customer, a boss, or a bank account gets your eyes first, every time. The machine drafts; you approve. That gate is not optional and never will be.
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Judgment plus speed is the superpower
An agent with no judgment is a liability. Your judgment with no leverage is a bottleneck. Bolt them together - your calls, its horsepower - and you outrun people grinding ten times as hard. You are the operator; it is the crew.
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Tighten the order, not the tool
When the output is garbage, do not go shopping for a smarter model. Bad instructions just produce bad work faster and at scale. Almost every time the real fix is a sharper order - say exactly what you want, show one example, and watch it snap into line.
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Make recurring work a standing order
Anything you do on a rhythm - the Monday summary, the weekly research brief, the same first draft - should be a saved machine, not a fresh start every time. Write the order once, and each week you just pull the trigger. That is where your hours come back.
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Pick one chore. Automate it today
Do not try to automate your whole life this week. Grab the single most repetitive thing you did three times last month, build the machine for it once, and never do it by hand again. One chore down, then the next, then the next.
Take your most-repeated task, write it as a checklist order, save it as a reusable template, and run it on today's real input.
Reading is not doing. Wire every node - do it with the tool, log the proof, mark it done. Finish them all to seal DECK COMPLETE (+10).
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