<story><title>Don&apos;t spend 6mins doing it by hand when you can spend 6h failing to automate it</title><url>https://twitter.com/camilaleniss/status/1370883721319026690</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haroldp</author><text>In a daily grind of frameworks, patterns, boilerplate and early optimization, I find automation work a lot more like the hacking I started with.  It&amp;#x27;s a more rewarding and... joyful kind of programming.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it saves me time, and maybe it doesn&amp;#x27;t.  Perhaps it makes tasks more repeatable.  Mostly it makes me less likely to drop out and switch to a career in beach combing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Don&apos;t spend 6mins doing it by hand when you can spend 6h failing to automate it</title><url>https://twitter.com/camilaleniss/status/1370883721319026690</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also the matter of eliminating errors.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s one script I wrote to partially automate posting podcasts. (I really should add a couple of additional steps.) It&amp;#x27;s almost certainly saved me time over time. But it also automates a fiddly process that&amp;#x27;s very easy to get something wrong if I do it by hand.</text></comment>