I know this feeling:

"Geeks write scripts to take apart dull, repetitive tasks. They'll
spend 10h writing a script that will save 11h -- because writing
scripts is interesting and doing dull stuff isn't."

... from live blogging of a 2004 tech conference, by @pluralistic:

https://craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt

Is It Worth the Time?

xkcd