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Re:Small-Scale Automation by drewcoo on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:31AM (#34578423)
> Often, people say that you should only automate things if it saves you time overall

I was trained years ago by people who said "if you have to repeat a task, automate it; any time spent repeating a script is waste but time spent automating is learning to automate better _and_ not repeating yourself."

Re:Small-Scale Automation by wrldos on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:03AM (#34579066)
Also the automation is documentation for next time you have to do it. Even if it doesn't work!