Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job
by kbenson on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:58PM
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Yes. In programming, laziness is a virtue. To some degree, so is the desire to work on interesting problems instead of boring problems. Those generally intersect to provide an enormous benefit to everyone.
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A Perl reference, I think :) http://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
As a sysadmin who started out replacing power supplies as a datacenter tech, and nowadays wrangles AWS auto-scaling groups, the idea of _not_ automating away the tedious parts of my job is pretty hilarious. I had one operations/support job where this was the case, and thankfully, I quit after one month.
If anyone out there has the gumption to cobble together a dev environment and automate away their BS job, yet can't get recognition from your employer; it is time to seek out a new job, you've certainly got the skills for something better!