Reasons why I <3 code
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Spend 2 hours to automate a task that would take 1 hour doing manually. But I think it's justified because I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive. If you are lucky you get to spend 1 hour to automate a task that would otherwise take 2 hours.
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Spend 2 hours to automate a task that would take 1 hour doing manually. But I think it's justified because I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive. If you are lucky you get to spend 1 hour to automate a task that would otherwise take 2 hours.
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Spend 2 hours to automate a task that would take 1 hour doing manually. But I think it's justified because I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive. If you are lucky you get to spend 1 hour to automate a task that would otherwise take 2 hours.
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Spend 2 hours to automate a task that would take 1 hour doing manually. But I think it's justified because I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive. If you are lucky you get to spend 1 hour to automate a task that would otherwise take 2 hours.
In defence of this approach, I once spent a week writing a program to match up entries from the audit trails of three separate systems. To do this 'by hand' took maybe half an hours for a set of data. We had over 5,000 unique datasets to be checked. And all the anomalies were logged to a file for some poor git\* to check. \* Me
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Spend 2 hours to automate a task that would take 1 hour doing manually. But I think it's justified because I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive. If you are lucky you get to spend 1 hour to automate a task that would otherwise take 2 hours.
Member 11683251 wrote:
I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive.
But not the risk that the program introduces an error which everyone fails to notice until it's cost the company half its revenue and started three wars?
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Spend 2 hours to automate a task that would take 1 hour doing manually. But I think it's justified because I avoid the risk that someone will mess up because the task was boring and repetitive. If you are lucky you get to spend 1 hour to automate a task that would otherwise take 2 hours.
Obligatory XKCD[^]. :)
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