Laziness Memes

Spending 30 minutes writing a script to automate a 5-minute task is the hill I'll proudly die on. Sure, I could just do the damn thing, but where's the elegance in that? The cosmic irony of programming: we'd rather spend 6x longer building the automation than actually doing the work. It's not laziness—it's "future-proofing." And yes, I know I'll never run that script again. But what if I did ? Checkmate.

The galaxy brain moment when you convince yourself that spending 48 hours automating a task that takes 20 minutes is somehow "efficient." But let's be real—we're not doing it to save time. We're doing it because manually repeating the same task feels like psychological torture, and writing that script gives us the same dopamine hit as solving a puzzle. Sure, we'll never recoup those hours, but our fragile programmer ego can't handle the thought of doing something "the easy way." It's not laziness, it's... "future-proofing."