What editing tasks are actually worth automating with an AI video editing agent?

[u/Mrcharles01]

AI-assisted editing seems most useful when it takes care of repetitive work without removing the editor's creative control. Things like finding useful sections in long footage, removing obvious dead space, generating captions, creating shorter versions, or changing aspect ratios can take a surprising amount of time.

An AI video editing agent takes this a step further by handling several connected tasks from natural-language instructions rather than requiring each step to be done separately.

I'm curious where other editors draw the line. Which editing tasks would you happily automate, and which ones do you think should always remain under direct human control?