Back in 2015, we were optimizing our time like responsible engineers—spending 8 hours automating a 5-minute task because efficiency mattered, dammit. Fast forward to 2026, and here we are dropping $740 on AI tokens to recreate what we could've done in 5 minutes ourselves.
The irony? We've gone from over-engineering solutions to over-spending on them. At least when we wasted time building automation scripts, we learned something and owned the code. Now we're just burning through API credits faster than a junior dev can max out the rate limit.
The real kicker is we're still avoiding the manual work—we've just found a more expensive way to do it. Progress, I guess?
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