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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by janalsncm on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:32PM (#45686703)
The title of the comic is “ Is It Worth the Time?”.

To take a concrete example, if I spend 30 minutes on a task every six months, over 5 years that’s 5 hours of “work” hours. So the implication is that it’s not worth automating if it takes more than 5 hours to automate.

But if those are 5 hours of application downtime, it’s pretty clearly worth it even if I have to spend way more than 5 hours to reduce downtime.

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Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time by yellowapple on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:42PM (#45698359)
Time saved also ain't the only factor here. I'll often automate something not because it actually saves a lot of time, but rather because it codifies an error-prone process and having it scripted out reduces the risk of human error by enough of a degree to be worth spending more time on it than I'd save.
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