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Re:My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automatio... by gorjusborg on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:13PM (#30250339)
What saves me the most time is not "automation" but something I call "Don't waste time learning things that are likely to go away".

So yeah, I'll just leverage the skills I've leveraged over and over to make a living.

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Re:My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automatio... by randito on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:18PM (#30252150)
That's a really interesting point.

This seems to explain a skepticism that I have, with regards to new tools, new languages, and especially "a new [x] that will solve all your problems."

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Re:My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automatio... by sidpatil on Monday February 07, 2022 @06:31PM (#30253010)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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