This is right. 

There was a particular process in our office that was pure tedium: brain-dead transcription work that ate up 20% of our engineering hours. But for good reasons, the engineers had to do it. I hated that. When ChatGPT first blew up, I started messing around with Python again after years of neglecting coding, and within a couple weeks I built out a program that turned the tedious time-suck into a button click. Instant time savings. (And it eliminated transcription errors. (18 months in and to date we’ve not had any) 

That first one is only “AI” if you consider OCR a kind of AI, but I have multiple projects now in the works which directly use LLMs, embeddings, and other AI tools to cut out the administrative/clerical work Nate mentions. That stuff is dead; it just doesn’t know it yet. I’m not even a “programmer” and I’ve figured out how to do it with AI.