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"If a decision is made not to automate something, someone is going to have to do that boring repetitive work that could have been automated." You did read the
by Attrecomet 4y ago
"If a decision is made not to automate something, someone is going to have to do that boring repetitive work that could have been automated."
You did read the little sentences under the big bullet points, right? It's "first, let's see if it's smarter to not do the work at all, before we commit to automating", not "don't automate the boring stuff"
- gyulai 4y agoI did read that relativization, it just didn't pass through my bullshit filter. This is because of a lifetime of managers telling me things like "before we do this thing that you want to do, please first conduct a fact-finding mission to consider the possibility that we don't actually need to do it". My mental bullshit filter turns that into just "no". That's because the fact-finding thing only has two possible outcomes: I come back with evidence to support their no-position in which case: great job on that fact-finding. Or I come back with evidence to support my yes-position, in which case, guess what, there's something wrong with my fact-finding. Then they decide "no" based on their preconceived notion, plus they get to look very reasonable and evidence-driven. -- Conversely, a "yes" always looks very different. It's always "yes" from the start.