I always felt (and my maths teachers agreed) that if I understood something sufficiently to automate it, I’d proved my point and didn’t need to do the rest of t

I always felt (and my maths teachers agreed) that if I understood something sufficiently to automate it, I’d proved my point and didn’t need to do the rest of the exercises. Edit: Automate in the sense of coding it myself, not in the sense of downloading some software.