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I largely agree with you and am usually the first to start automating things. However, I'll also say that sometimes doing it the boring, hard way really is the
by rprospero 13y ago
I largely agree with you and am usually the first to start automating things. However, I'll also say that sometimes doing it the boring, hard way really is the smart way to handle it. I've seen the pressure to work smarter used to spend weeks automating a system that could be performed by hand in hours. Using an hour to write a program that saves a month of work is smart. Using a month to write a program that saves a night of tedious manual labor is lazy.
- crucini 13y agoBut it's not always that clear-cut a difference in time. And the manual way has more problems. Quite often you are asked to do the same task again a bit later. At which point you wish you had automated the first time. The manual way also tends to be error-prone and unreproducible.