I embrace best tool for the job. Sometimes it’s code, sometimes manual grind or sometimes something else. One time I had to fix a bug that was estimated at 40

I embrace best tool for the job. Sometimes it’s code, sometimes manual grind or sometimes something else. One time I had to fix a bug that was estimated at 40 hours and consisted of getting Python 2 type coercion in Python 3 (IMO a silly idea). The users of this program were 5. Instead what I did: I taught them about strings and ints and how to cast (it was some template language they used). I added an answer with some examples to the FAQ. It took me an hour. The previous programmer on this project never considered manual solutions.