Let me share a little secret about the AutoID Column, call it an Easter Egg 
There might be situations that you want AutoID to fill the leftmost (name) column on your board. To do that configure AutoID filling a temporary text column (you can add the column during the configuration) and delete the new column after AutoID is configured.
AutoID will recognize that the output column has been deleted and puts the generated AutoID in the left most (name) column. You can even re-configure the recipe without need to create a temporary column again, just do not click on the this column link.
The support tool AutoFill does not work in this scenario as the name column will never be empty.
Feel free to ask for more