yes, I've got a little heuristic I use to tell the beginner analysts at work when to think about automating their work or putting it into a script. if you're d

yes, I've got a little heuristic I use to tell the beginner analysts at work when to think about automating their work or putting it into a script. if you're doing something once and once only, maybe it's a candidate for the manual or gui way. if you think you might do it twice, it's almost certainly time to automate or start programming it. Anything encountered in business that you encounter more than 1 time is likely to be encountered N times more.