Spending 10 days automating a 10-minute task is the hill we die on. It's not about efficiency—it's about principle. Sure, I could just do the thing manually 600 times over the next five years, but what if I need to do it 601 times? That's when my beautiful, over-engineered solution pays off. The ROI calculation conveniently ignores the 16 hours of debugging and the fact that I'll probably leave this job before it ever breaks even. But hey, at least I didn't have to do something boring twice.
The Programmer's Time Investment Strategy
4 months ago
149,090 views
0 shares
automation-memes, efficiency-memes, overengineering-memes, laziness-memes, programming-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io
More Like This
The Unpaid Intern's Farewell Gift
10 months ago
326.8K views
0 shares
Shuf gang
4 years ago
54.3K views
0 shares
Time Dilation In Programming Languages
5 months ago
278.4K views
0 shares
In light of current events
2 years ago
57.6K views
0 shares
Name Hijacking
1 year ago
194.9K views
0 shares
Loading more content...
AI
AWS
Agile
Algorithms
Android
Apple
Bash
C++
Csharp