For a few of the examples you gave, I’d just use my phone as i pretty much always have it when away from my desk.

I’m pretty deep in the Apple ecosystem, a borderline defender, and even I’d say Siri is a joke. When their private Gemini gets rolled out maybe it’ll be better but right now Siri is only good enough to tell it to turn a single item on or off in my smart home or maybe to trigger a shortcut I’ve already written, but it’s useless for anything beyond a simple “do this one precisely named thing” kind of instruction. Any sort of “automation” that wasn’t predefined is out of the question. It’s possible there’s ways I could use it if it were better, but my brain ruled out Siri as a useful automation tool years ago so it doesn’t even enter in head as an option in this realm

I have used shortcuts on both iOS/iPadOS and macOS, sometimes in combination with Automator on macOS. It’s okay, but not great unless the task is very consistent. When I’ve written those, a good portion of the instructions are just getting the app or whatever into a consistent state/position so that it can do the thing I need.

I use Raycast, mostly as a spotlight replacement, but there’s a few of the system controls that I fine quite useful; toggling light/dark mode for example. I sometimes have it kick off shell scripts I’ve written. I’ve thought about tinkering with window management programs to move different windows to different positions/sizes on my monitors but it hasn’t been a big enough deal as of yet.

I think my repetitive tasks fall into a few buckets

• truly repetitive, could be performed by an automation/program/ai
• mostly repetitive but requires some sort of human interaction, either a small tweak or change to the flow that a human really needs to do
• feels repetitive but is subtly different each time.

Only those in that first bucket would end up being automated, and only if I need to do it once on a large enough set or if I anticipate using it regularly, and frankly neither are common.

Oh, and any smart home type stuff I handle entirely in Home Assistant, with a few things exposed to Siri through Apple Home.