relevant XKCD

and the other one

The task also only needs to be done once so the logical sollution is a one click automated script. 🖱

One of my professors had a poster that said something to the effect of ‘programmers will spend 10 hours to save 10 minutes’. It always seemed rather ironically true.

About two years or so ago, I automated the build of a sheet music project (don't ask 😅). It was working fine.

Then a few weeks ago at $DAYJOB, we considered using Makefiles to automate something and I decided, I'd just play around how you might automate that same sheet music build with Makefiles.

Then I realized they're a much better match for that build and decided to rewrite the whole build in them.

Then I realized that, actually, it should be possible to define general rules to build any similar sheet music project. So, now I'm trying to build a flexible, user-friendly build system based on a Makefile.

The original build was working fine.

Send help... 🫠

(Actually don't; it's great fun. 🙃)

Why spend 10 minutes doing a repetitive task by hand if you can spend an afternoon automating it?

XKCD 1205

It doesn't even have to take 5 minutes, it just has to be something I don't want to deal with anymore

If I have to do the same thing more than twice, I'm going to look for the ways to automate it. I hate repetitive tasks.

The value in automation is consistency rather than time saved directly.

Factorio players being like “why shouldn’t I automate night vision goggles production.”

I became a programmer because I was too lazy to not automate.

Maybe novices.

lol funny but wrong comm