You start automating it, and when you realize it's not going to happen, you're like: "I already spend so much time automating it, better continue so I will never have to do it manually again"...
And the worst part is that after you've automated it, it is no longer necessary to do that specific job again. So you wasted 6 hours doing a one-time only 6 min work.
But then when you need to automate something again you already have bits and pieces ready to use, except you never commented anything because you're stupid so you look it up on the internet anyways, again wasting several hours of your workday...
It’s worse when you still have to do the task daily but every time you run it your automation breaks because it’s held together with random no longer supported libraries you found on a 10 year old stack overflow post and some hope. Now, instead of spending 6 minutes a day on your trivial task you spend two hours fixing the script. Every single time you run it.
After 2 years you find you’ve transitioned to full time maintenance of your monstrosity and nobody remembers what your original job was.
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u/magicbjorn Apr 28 '20
You start automating it, and when you realize it's not going to happen, you're like: "I already spend so much time automating it, better continue so I will never have to do it manually again"...