--- title: What Would You Automate if It Was Free? | daily.dev description: LLM-powered code generation tools have made automation practically free, changing the cost-benefit calculation for repetitive tasks. The author shares... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sz5cxpoey twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Would You Automate if It Was Free? | daily.dev og:description: LLM-powered code generation tools have made automation practically free, changing the cost-benefit calculation for repetitive tasks. The author shares... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sz5cxpoey og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Sz5cXPoEy.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Would You Automate if It Was Free? **[DevOps Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/devopsdaily)** · [@qwertydiy](https://daily.dev/qwertydiy) · 15 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary LLM-powered code generation tools have made automation practically free, changing the cost-benefit calculation for repetitive tasks. The author shares practical examples of using AI to generate scripts for podcast transcript processing, video file stitching with ffmpeg, and converting notes to Markdown. These tools enable automation of even one-off tasks that previously weren't worth the manual effort, fundamentally changing how developers approach small, repetitive work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@a\_meb\_a** · 0 upvotes > nice ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don't fall into the anti-AI hype](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-fall-into-the-anti-ai-hype-kp54wqj8l) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/sz5cxpoey) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/sz5cxpoey","headline":"What Would You Automate if It Was Free?","text":"Shared: What Would You Automate if It Was Free?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/sz5cxpoey","datePublished":"2025-11-24T12:22:16.118Z","dateModified":"2025-11-24T12:22:16.119Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rene Yibowei","url":"https://daily.dev/qwertydiy","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--QlvtioAW--/f_auto/v1746524446/avatars/avatar_aTUl3chxFyPngKtboGisL","description":"Secondary School Student doing the Full Stack with Linux, currently learning Data Science","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":19280}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":15},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/8QSW5wQ6M"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"nice","datePublished":"2025-12-04T10:39:34.069Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Sz5cXPoEy#c-7L3lAyuNe","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Phillippe Michel Weir","url":"https://daily.dev/a_meb_a","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--BwH-uTMq--/f_auto/v1740136991/avatars/avatar_N403VFK9lAHNRwlSAhl1h"}}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/devopsdaily","name":"DevOps Daily"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DevOps Daily","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/devopsdaily"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What Would You Automate if It Was Free?"}]} ```