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

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?