Sometimes the manual steps grow like weeds. Where I’m at now, they haven’t invested in automation much at all. Now deploys take all day. Making a code change is a sweaty manual regression search process. It’s bad.
it’s worse when everything is manual because they don’t “trust scripts” due to them not fully understanding what automation means.
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.
Bad news buddy, that’s exactly how you become a programmer. /irony
So then you break even after using the automation to do the task 144 times.
Seems like a decent trade-off
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.
On the flip-side, when I learned Autocad, I customized the interface to be more efficient with my workflow - I worked significantly faster, probably saving 20-30 minutes a day by having my quick-access macros, etc.
Then I went to another location and started trying to work on a colleague’s Autocad interface, and I was helpless - I had never learned the default command set, I had to describe to him what I wanted to do (like he was ChatGPT or something) so he could make it happen. Over the next year, I retrained to use the default command set - and because I was using it less and less the time-loss was becoming trivial at that point.
Experience doesn’t even have much to do with it. I’ve seen developers working much longer than me do the same.
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I swear we must have started posting at the same time, but adding an alt text to the image cost me 2 minutes apparently. xD
Having alt-text makes yours superior; I will, therefore, cede the content to you. :)
…and now my popcorn has gone stale. Fuck you guys and your civil discourse!
You should write a script to automate it
hey, the 24 hours i invested were totally worth it to save 30 minutes of work over a year!
Great! Now you just have to ensure you stay at your job for at least 48 years so that this automation starts to pay off!
Why spend 10 minutes doing a task when you can automate it in 6 hours?
