My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?

13 jamessmithe 17 9/10/2025, 10:11:45 AM

Being an analyst I need to research about the market and work accordingly. With the help of ChatGPT, perplexity and Gemini, I get done 70% of my research work. The rest of the 30% is just pure brainstorming. Then if I need some graphics then I use Canva for designing them. I get the images from them. Sometimes, I create ppts too using it. If I need any videos then i usually use tool like fliki, Lunabloom Ai or invideo to generate video. These tools give me good quality AI generated videos. Then nowadays, AI is also available on social medias. It makes the job easier for me. So basically, Most of my work is completed by AI. The one thing I need to do properly is to give them proper instructions. How do you go about it?

Comments (17)

oaiey · 12m ago

As an analyst it is your job to prepare valuable information to other. If you drop AI generated stuff unreflected, uncorrected and outdated at people, you will loose your job. I am starting to reject meeting minutes created by AI which are not understood by the writer and are not polished.

AI is a tool for you to create better results not an opportunity to offload thinking to others (like it is now done so often)

miah_ · 11m ago

0% AI, 80% YAML Jockey, 10% SSH Shenanigans, 10% Python programming

Been doing sysadmin since the 90's. Why bother with AI, it just slows me down. I've already scripted my life with automation. Anything not already automated probably takes me a few minutes, and if longer I'll build the automation. Shell scripts and Ansible aren't hard.

blitzar · 8m ago

I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

hoppp · 16m ago

So your work can be automated by AI. Don't tell your boss or you are fired

james_marks · 10m ago

OP listed N tools they stitch together in a creative and thoughtful way (“30% brainstorming”) which happen to leverage AI.

What’s the fireable offense? Does the boss want to stitch those tools together themselves?

If the output is crap- regardless of the tool- that’s a different story, and one we don’t have enough info to evaluate.

neonnoodle · 19m ago

If I were your boss I would fire you.

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mrkeen · 1h ago

I skip reading anything "written" by my analyst and get on with the work.

If I have a question I can just ask ChatGPT, perplexity and Gemini.

coldtea · 53m ago

>If I have a question I can just ask ChatGPT, perplexity and Gemini

Which get their knowledge (training data) on relevant topics from analysts. Which increasingly use ChatGPT and the rest to produce them.

Enough loops of this, and analyst writings and ChatGPT responses on market analysis will soon reach the same "useless bullshit" parity.

bbarnett · 23m ago

Indeed. I get the vibe that the submission author doesn't really check the results of LLM output either. Which of course speeds this process up.

skydhash · 16m ago

As a developer, it's a lot of docs and code reading. And writing reports on tickets. Sometimes some deep planning. Writing code is the guilty pleasure of the day.

WJW · 5m ago

My workflow is probably 20% coding, 50% thinking about how to code whatever needs fixing, 10% looking at metrics and 20% getting distracted. AI has proven almost entirely useless for the type of disentangling spaghetti code that makes up most of my work. Then again I'm not an analyst so you do you.

Applejinx · 19m ago

Mine is doing the work… o_O

hoppp · 18m ago

Same.

People these days do everything to avoid actually programing but still they wanna call themselves a programmer

tiborsaas · 4m ago

Programming is much more than typing code on a keyboard.

koakuma-chan · 12m ago

Ask HN: will my boss prompt AI himself?

fsflover · 21m ago

You should add "Ask HN:" to the title.

4ndrewl · 15m ago

Gemini would have told them that...