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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 19, 2026

What's a task your agent can do, but you still do manually because it's cheaper or faster?

A Reddit thread asks where the line sits between 'an agent can do this' and 'I'd actually use an agent for this.' The real cost of an agent task turns out to be inference plus review time plus silent breakage discovered a week later — so the tasks worth automating are the scheduled, boring ones with a visible artifact you can glance at.

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