What r/automation is talking about this week

I think I was completely blindsided that I can create my own Chrome Extensions. I use some specific websites to read stuff, I copy exact couple of paragraphs, for 4/5 articles a day. I suddenly...

With ai getting better every day, I feel like businesses should be automating some pcrazy things by now. But most of what I see are still basic workflows. For those who’ve worked on real projects,...

Zapier has been getting expensive as the number of automations I run has grown so I'm looking at other options. I still want something reliable and reasonably easy to manage, not just the cheapest...

As a former big data and infrastructure engineer, I have a habit where I would rather spend forty hours wiring up a pipeline than spend two hours doing manual copy pasting. For me it was turning...

Last weekend I sat down with every playable we ran this year, fully expecting to discover some deep truth about art direction, and instead learned that players would like to play the playable....

construction office where invoices land in an outlook folder and someone files each one by hand every day. the steps look simple enough: \- pull the attachment \- read the job number and invoice...

Not talking about demos or experiments, but actually relying on them to get work done. I'm curious how people handle it when two agents are working on the same project. Do you let them figure...

Building an automation feels productive. You see it run, it works, and it’s satisfying. But the cost that comes later tends to be less visible: an API changes, a field gets renamed, a trigger...

Mine was sorting incoming emails into folders. I spent a weekend on rules and every week a few messages landed in the wrong place, so I spent more time fixing it than I saved. I went back to a...

Back in Poland I ran continuous improvement at a factory. Most of my automation experience comes from there: finding where production lost time and fixing it, more and more with AI. Now I’m in SF...