The Automation Paradox

The eternal programmer's dilemma: spend 20 minutes doing a boring task once, or waste an entire weekend building an elaborate automation system you'll never touch again.

It's not about efficiency—it's about avoiding the soul-crushing tedium of repetitive tasks while convincing yourself that your 36-hour automation marathon was "an investment." The irony? That script will sit in a folder somewhere, gathering digital dust, while you move on to automate the next thing you could have done manually in minutes.

The worst part? We'll do it again next week. Because apparently we'd rather write 500 lines of code than click the same button twice.