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> One thing I find fascinating about the article is that it's assumed the cleverness was the code written to automate. This is incorrect; the cleverness is in n
by the_watcher 8y ago
> One thing I find fascinating about the article is that it's assumed the cleverness was the code written to automate. This is incorrect; the cleverness is in noticing when a task can be automated. Typically, the code itself is trivial.
I thought about this too. Pretty much everything I've automated turned out to be way easier than I assumed and I ended up feeling dumb for not realizing I could have saved myself time by doing it sooner.