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  "video_id": "reddit_1uszlay",
  "channel_slug": "ClaudeAI",
  "channel_handle": "r/ClaudeAI",
  "title": "How Claude does my 40 hour a week job by itself - for 15 Cents",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1uszlay/how_claude_does_my_40_hour_a_week_job_by_itself/",
  "external_url": null,
  "upload_date": "20260710",
  "published_at": "2026-07-10T20:42:53+00:00",
  "transcript": "I got a contracting job where I need to extract information from websites. Doing it myself would be extremely time consuming. \n\nSo I had Claude write me a script that actually consumes almost no tokens.   \nI tell Claude to start the job and then it gets back to me with everything done. I just submitted at the end of the day\n\nTo be clear, this is a very straightforward job that requires some expertise in a field. But that's it.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[1 upvotes] **TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 40 comments.**\n\n**The consensus is a resounding \"hell yeah, OP.\"** The thread is basically a standing ovation for you automating your job. Everyone is either asking how to get in on the action, telling you to keep your mouth shut and enjoy the ride, or sharing stories about how common these easily-automatable \"bullshit jobs\" are.\n\n*   **Keep it on the DL:** The top advice by a landslide is to absolutely *not* tell your employer. Just collect the paycheck, enjoy the free time, and don't spoil a good thing. The inevitable \"you're fired... wait, come back and fix it for 10x the pay\" jokes are, of course, present.\n*   **\"They pay people for *this*?\":** A lot of users are shocked a company would hire a human for a task a simple script could have done for years. Others, however, are not surprised at all, confirming that corporate, finance, and banking worlds are full of these inefficient roles just waiting to be automated.\n*   **\"How do I do this?\":** For those asking how to replicate your success, your own advice is the most upvoted: you don't need to be a coding genius, you just need to be good at prompting Claude and asking it to\n\n[66 upvotes] Do you need a helper? :) I'll cut that time in half.\n\n[50 upvotes] Bro who pays you to Extract data from websites\n\n[41 upvotes] shhhh.  Don't spoil it.",
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  "ingested_at": "2026-07-11T01:30:15.453762+00:00",
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    "num_comments": 64,
    "author": "ColdPlankton9273",
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