What practical tasks are AIs already good at today?

[JohnT]

To be honest, the coding I described in the linked post was done via chatbot (Gemini 3.0, Pro).

So... How does one actually use AI?

As this thread is more appropriate, I’m going to quote something I posted about in the Pit AI thread regarding a couple of more use cases for which I found AI to be very helpful. As it’s long, I’m going to put this in a details tag. I’ve taken the bottom example and now have a suite of web apps where we can upload documents, create a journal entry, and then put that JE into QuickBooks online. Processes that once took an hour, hour and a half, now take 3, 4 minutes.