Code vs manual Memes

The eternal developer dilemma: crawling 21 miles through the desert to automate a task that would take 10 minutes to do manually. Why solve something in 10 minutes when you can spend your entire workday building an over-engineered solution? The automation paradox is real—we'll happily burn 10 hours "saving time" while completely ignoring the simple path right in front of us. The ROI math never checks out, but hey, at least we got to write code instead of doing actual work!

The eternal developer dilemma: why complete a task in seconds when you can spend an entire workday crafting an elaborate automation script that you'll use exactly once? It's not laziness—it's tactical inefficiency . Sure, the math doesn't add up (10 seconds vs. 10 hours), but that's not the point. The point is that we'd rather solve an interesting programming challenge than do a mundane task. Somewhere, a project manager just felt a disturbance in the force. And yes, we'll absolutely claim it was "for future scalability" in the sprint retrospective.