7 things I automated in my dev workflow

15+ hours saved every week. No fancy SaaS. Just a handful of AI agents and scripts.

1. Code review pre-screening

An AI agent reviews every PR before I do. Flags logical issues, missing edge cases, style nits.

I only have to focus on the flagged spots instead of scanning line-by-line. ~3 hours saved per week.

2. Multi-platform publishing

One Markdown file. AI rewrites it for Twitter threads, Medium, LinkedIn, Reddit, my blog.

One input, five-plus outputs. No more manual copy-paste, no more "fixing" formatting on six different rich-text editors.

3. Service monitoring

A "patrol" agent checks service status every 30 minutes. Watches queue health. Only alerts when something actually breaks.

I never look at dashboards anymore. Silence means everything is fine.

4. Daily tech digest

Every morning, an agent scans GitHub Trending, top Hacker News stories, and a handful of AI / dev RSS feeds.

It sends me 3 summarized items in Telegram. I pick writing topics in 5 minutes instead of doomscrolling for an hour.

5. Knowledge management on autopilot

Everything I learn lands in a Markdown repo. An AI auto-tags, categorizes, and cross-references related notes.

After six months: a searchable personal wiki, with zero manual filing.

6. Meeting summary extraction

Audio recording → Whisper → AI extracts decisions, action items, follow-up dates. Pushes straight into my task manager.

No more "I'll write up the meeting later" lies.

7. Multi-agent coordination

These aren't seven independent scripts hacked together. Three AI agents coordinate everything:

• 🎯 Planner — breaks down tasks and assigns them
• 🔍 Monitor — watches quietly; only speaks up when something breaks
• 🔨 Builder — writes code, sets up projects, delivers results

They talk to each other. I just set the goals.

What I learned

Don't try to automate everything at once. That's the trap — you'll spend three months building infra and saving zero time.

Pick the one thing that wastes you the most time each day. Build a janky version of it. As long as it works, ship it. Then move to the next.

Start with your single biggest pain point.

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I'm building all of this in public — @jiusanzhou for updates, zoe.im for the long-form write-ups.