AI agents are great for the boring things.

AI agents are great for the boring things. I always hated to install the bloated Adobe Reader 300+MB.  @BentoPDF to the rescue with a local selfhosted install on my static site https://michael-diener.com/pdf .  To be honest not much AI really used or needed.

I’ve always believed AI agents should earn their keep — not by doing *everything*, but by doing the things I’d happily never do again.

Case in point: installing Adobe Reader.

You know the drill. You just want to open and edit a PDF and suddenly you’re downloading a 300+ MB behemoth that feels like it’s preparing for launch into orbit rather than rendering a document.

So instead of suffering (again), I did what any reasonable person with a mild allergy to bloat would do: I avoided the problem entirely.

Enter **BentoPDF**.

A clean, lightweight, self-hosted PDF viewer — running locally, no nonsense, no baggage. I wired it up on my static site here:

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And that’s it. PDFs editable almost instantly. No installs. No updates. No “please restart your computer.” Just… it works.

Funny thing is — this is one of those moments where AI *could* have been involved, but didn’t really need to be. No over-engineering, no fancy agent workflows. Just a simple tool solving a simple problem.

And honestly? That’s kind of the point.

AI agents are fantastic — but their real superpower isn’t doing everything. It’s freeing you up so you can build small, elegant solutions instead of wrestling with software you never wanted in the first place.

Less bloat. More control. Just enough AI.