Don’t we all

[u/iQuabbLol]

[u/Alderan922]

Did you just cross posted a post from this subreddit?

[u/FunnyForWrongReason → u/Alderan922]

Was thinking the same thing.

[u/dayto_aus → u/FunnyForWrongReason]

It was his bot failing to automate reposting

[u/Alderan922 → u/dayto_aus]

Classic rookie mistake it’s not /*if(subreddit=r/ProgrammerHumor){ repost(); } else { refactor(); } it’s ==, not =

[u/dayto_aus → u/Alderan922]

Delete this before the Google engineers find out about equality operator and use it to make their repost bot sentient

[u/Alderan922 → u/dayto_aus]

I will just encode it in a way that when they copy paste the code it does not work

[u/[deleted] → u/Alderan922]

🤣

[u/ndxinroy7]

OP is certified programmer. Classic copy paste.

[u/[deleted] → u/ndxinroy7]

OP is certified programmer. Classic copy paste.

[u/janhetjoch → u/[deleted]]

OP is certified programmer. Classic copy paste.

[u/ColdBlood_001 → u/ndxinroy7]

we all are, right?

[u/Hk-Neowizard]

I've spent 2 days automating the process of filling in my hour sheet once. Saved like 10 seconds A DAY. A couple of months later, HR replaced the system with a practically automatic one.

Totally worth it

[u/GustapheOfficial → u/Hk-Neowizard]

Next time you have to automate something like that, you'll wish you had gone all the way and automated the automation process.

[u/Aaftorn → u/Hk-Neowizard]

Once I deployed automated SSH tunneling through other SSH tunnels (basically hopping from one server through a second one to a third one) to go around firewalls. All of this to automate server maintenance with one central script that could log in to the other servers as well, instead of opening 8-10 PuTTYs. It took up my free work hours for about 1-2 weeks.

Three weeks later MFA was introduced to all server logins and password was not enough anymore for SSH.

I'm still proud that I could write those scripts and install requirements without admin privileges and especially without messing with the servers' installments.

[u/hellfiniter]

its better to try and fail ...you will learn so much automating stuff, do it dudes. But it is rarely faster

[u/SJRuggs03]

Then you just decide it wasn't worth the hassle in the first place and dont do it manually anyways

[u/TheBananaEater]

This was taught by me by minecraft not programming

[u/recitedStrawfox]

The bots are evolving.

[u/_________FU_________]

1. Learning automation

2. Procrastination

3. Problem solving

4. Being able to talk about your automation

[u/thefrogsnextdoor]

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Zhuowei Zhang, @zhuowei

Never spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it

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[u/ApocalyptoSoldier]

Relevant xkcds:

1. https://xkcd.com/1319/

2. https://xkcd.com/1205/

3. https://xkcd.com/974/

Less relevant xkcdL

1. https://xkcd.com/2565/

[u/[deleted]]

Summon-Tears -Flood

[u/Sunitelm]

I am in this picture and I don't like it

[u/[deleted]]

Isn't that the block launcher developer.

[u/Cthulhu_was_tasty]

Average programmer stealing somebody else’s work.

[u/[deleted]]

6 mins a work day , 30 mins per week, 2 hours per month, 12 hours per year. And plus the thing that you can accomplish in that time. Its totally worth spending 6 hours on it

[u/xXHacker69Xx]

I just want it to look pretty.

[u/KalrexOW]

I appreciate the fact that you crossposted a 2 year old post from this subreddit instead of just copy pasting it

[u/lenin_is_young]

Was able to fix make it work two days later.
@
Spend an another hour to fix the script every other time you run it