I was manually labeling training data for months until a friend in Portland asked me why.
He saw me clicking through images one by one and just said 'you know there's a tool for that, right?'. I'd been doing it the hard way since last fall, not even looking at new options. What's the most basic task you've been doing manually that AI finally fixed for you?
Yeah "hours a week" sounded crazy to me too. But after seeing how much time a simple filter can save, I get it now. I used to be the guy rolling my eyes at this stuff.