>We're as misguided on value as we are on efficiency and automation (more specifically, the old trope of a dev spending hours to automate something that takes m

>We're as misguided on value as we are on efficiency and automation (more specifically, the old trope of a dev spending hours to automate something that takes minutes to do). but automating something that takes minutes to do is Larry Wall's example of programmer laziness, and is a virtue. of course - this needs obligatory conflicting XKCD comics automation makes you do more work: https://xkcd.com/1319/ https://xkcd.com/1319/ is it worth the time to automate https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/