Amen. Normal office work is wildly different from what we read about on HN. If you were a CEO, determined to lay off all your people, you would want to really zero in on having your AI solve these very unsexy problems: extract data from Office and PDF. Grab data from some part of the screen of a webapp and parse it. drive a line of business app via keyboard or mouse simulation. I know there are companies out there that try, eg Appian and (here in YC) Skyvern, but its a hard problem and yet I feel this is where the true money is.

bingo. 90% of our AI use cases across the company are things like this. security and ops (NOC/SOC folks) use this almost as much as they do for technical stuff.

hell we have restrictive rules for security stuff so in many cases our network engineers are still doing by hand configs for critical systems.

but in terms of token use it's gotta be "take this pdf and parse these 3 columns into 2" or similar