grunt work

American  

noun

Slang.

1. work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.

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Example Sentences

And fears about the disappearance of entry-level work notwithstanding, Salazar said junior employees entering the workforce now, who have a native grasp of AI tools, will likely outperform senior employees who insist on doing the grunt work manually.

From The Wall Street Journal

Robert Alver said that Pretti worked with him as a lab technician beginning in 2009 at the University of Minnesota, and did much of the grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal

It doesn’t hurt that making stuff is increasingly easy too, thanks to the cameras on our phones and mixing boards on our laptops and artificial intelligence that does the grunt work for us.

From The Wall Street Journal

While Mr. Scharf is chafing to get off the planet, Mr. Willis is happy to let robots do the grunt work of searching for ETs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another issue is that artificial-intelligence tools have proven capable of handling the grunt work of coding, thereby minimizing the need for low-level workers.

From MarketWatch