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> Automation is a good thing at any scale. Once dealt with a company that spend close to 2 years to develop 2 different generations of a robotics system to glu
by hjk05 8y ago
> Automation is a good thing at any scale.
Once dealt with a company that spend close to 2 years to develop 2 different generations of a robotics system to glue together two plastic pieces. One of the pieces changed slightly close to the end making both robots useless. The pieces ended up being glued together manually for next to no labor cost because a person could actually do the gluing quite fast.
Premature automation wrecks budgets and production lines and can kill entire companies.
- ASalazarMX 8y agoThose robots were heroes. Not only did they not take our jobs, they made more of them.
- dtech 8y agoThere's a lot of difference between a gluing robot and the tasks that Devops advocates to automate. Spending a few hours on setting up an automated build on a SaaS CI server will start bringing benefits immediately and pay off very quickly. Not only quantitative (next deployments will take less human time) but also qualitative (less chance of errors/bugs/mistakes, easier to do them more frequently etc). Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/
- jdmichal 8y agoThe other obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/