1. What kind of work is boring and wants to be automated?

"Boring" is a pretty subjective criteria. I can't think of anything that isn't interesting to somebody.

Sifting through the triggering or boring parts of HN to get to the stuff I’m interested in learning about

Dishes. Clothes washing, drying, ironing and folding.

creating banal records in ERP / CRM or similar software

lots of clicking

Accounting. Honestly not sure why I get a thousand dollar bill for a user on the other end to click some buttons and auto gen some reports when I could have a ai do it for me.

I mean crikey xero costs me like 650+ a year and it is a glorified semi automated ledger.

There's gotta be enough coin in that to encourage a business to ai automate an accountant for small businesses. Xeros got like >4 million subscribers.