AI for the boring tasks wins. The creative stuff is overrated.
The best ROI I got from AI was not art or essays. It was the administrative sludge I used to avoid.
The demos sell imagination: novels, movies, symphonies. The reality of my week is expense categorization, email triage, and turning a call into a timeline. That is where AI quietly earned its keep.
Creative tasks still need my taste, and the model's draft is a starting point I heavily rewrite. Boring tasks are different - they are defined well enough that automation just does them, and nobody misses the human touch.
I reframed my approach: automate the dull first, delegate the creative last. The dull work was stealing the hours I needed for the work that mattered.
If you are disappointed by AI, you probably aimed it at the wrong layer. Point it at the sludge.