u/Boring_Yam8366

Not what you're automating now.

What's the dream project?

The thing you'd build if money, time, and technical limitations didn't exist.

Keep seeing "how do I begin" posts, so here's the honest roadmap. Pick one boring task you do often. Learn just enough Python to automate that one thing. Break it, fix it, repeat. Then add a browser tool when you hit something a script can't click. Don't buy a course, don't buy a "system," just automate one real annoyance and build from there.

That's genuinely it. What was the first thing you ever automated?

Building a community list and I’d rather it come from people who use this stuff daily than a random top-10 article. I’ll start the pot: Browser-Use for agent stuff, plain Playwright when I don’t need the AI overhead. Your turn. One tool, what it’s for, why it earns the spot.

Not work.

Not coding.

Your actual life.

What’s the first thing you’d get rid of forever?

Python?

APIs?

Web scraping?

Prompt engineering?

Workflows?

What's the foundation?

A year ago it felt like everyone was talking about chatbots now it feels like everyone is building AI agents.

Agents that browse websites, write code, answer emails, manage workflows, run automations, and supposedly replace entire teams.

Some people think they're the future of automation.

Others think they're just expensive demos that break the second something unexpected happens.

So where do you stand?

Have you actually built or used an AI agent for something useful?

Or is the hype way ahead of the reality right now?

Curious to hear real experiences, not just marketing claims.

Keep seeing people talk about running an LLM as the “brain” instead of paying for a traditional client. I’m tempted but skeptical. For anyone who’s actually tried it: does it hold up, or does it fall apart the second something on the page changes?
What model and setup are you running?