Let's Make This Complicated

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!