Automation Saves Time (Eventually... Maybe... Never)

The quintessential developer dilemma: spend 1 hour doing a boring task manually with a grimace on your face... OR spend 6 hours writing a script that doesn't even work, but somehow feels like the intellectually superior choice. The dopamine rush of potentially automating something is just too powerful to resist, even when the math clearly doesn't check out. It's like buying a $300 mechanical keyboard to improve your productivity by 0.02%.