I mean yeah but if the automated way is a quick command under a minute and its going to be used for years then great.
So then you break even after using the automation to do the task 144 times.
Seems like a decent trade-off
Sometimes the manual steps grow like weeds. Where I’m at now, they haven’t invested in automation much at all. Now deploys take all day. Making a code change is a sweaty manual regression search process. It’s bad.
it’s worse when everything is manual because they don’t “trust scripts” due to them not fully understanding what automation means.
I know it’s supposed to be a joke how a nerd will spend six hours writing a script to automate a 30second task but… it’s not really funny.
Working with less-experienced developers, I’m amazed at how slow everything is for them: No keyboard shortcuts, no automated scripts, just slow, plodding mouse-driven tinkering.
Automation, shortcuts, and scripting drive your ability to iterate and therefore learn.
Train your fingers, and spend those hours automating repetitive stuff. It’s worth it.
Why spend 10 minutes doing a task when you can automate it in 6 hours?
hey, the 24 hours i invested were totally worth it to save 30 minutes of work over a year!
