hey, the 24 hours i invested were totally worth it to save 30 minutes of work over a year!

xkcd.com/1205/

Why spend 10 minutes doing a task when you can automate it in 6 hours?

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.

So then you break even after using the automation to do the task 144 times.

Seems like a decent trade-off

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.

This is kinda why programmer was not a good for for me. By the time I script something its because doing it again and again has just gotten so annoying I finally get off my but and do it.