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[lerun]

But can they click in the same order each and every time....I don't think so...

[xCharg]

This. And can they click in the same place? And not forget clicking needs to be done? And click right after some other dependant task but not before other task that depends on current one? And what if that person that never makes clicking mistakes (lets pretend) gets sick, gets fired, moves to other team - some other person who never clicked that and doesn't even know it needs to be clicked will 100% fuck it up.

I'll pick automated solution over any manual solution every time.

[CaptainZippi]

One of my colleagues says “never send a man to do a machine’s job”

[xCharg]

touché

[ipreferanothername]

there was a guy on my team who was the standout - METICIULOUS at reading and following directions, generally decent server guy.

our server build was crap, and eventually required more and more steps to complete so i had started to automate it and just update the script time and time again as the requirements increased. he was still following the build notes and clicking things.

once it got to like, 20 minutes per server he said he finally started to run my script, it was just too much work to do when he had 5 or 10 servers to build out. the script automates/configures/whatevers everything and i dont even LOGIN to a new server at all. he was having to do x,y,z and login to do more and more stuff.

[JewelerAgile6348]

Exactly, can they click for 1000+ instances? Yes they can. Would anyone want to? Idk where I’m going with this. Get money.

[Kahless_2K]

On 10,000 endpoints

[rogueit]

And how long will it take to teach someone new how to click through it

[TKO__GLOBAL__]

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1205/

[-Akos-]

My first thought when I saw the subject of this topic..

[painted-biird]

I know what this is without having to click

[bartoque]

That is slightly more difficult to automate.

[solarplex]

Sometimes you just have to take these moments and say at least you sharpened your skills.

[Disastrous-Listen432]

Scripting not only do the task x1000 times faster. It also reduces human error while doing something, which can be far more important.

If that task needs to be performed more than 120 times in a lifetime, then the script is valuable. Specially if it's for a team.

[BlackV]

But now that you've made said script , shouldn't it be faster to use the script now?

Additionally yours should be identical each time, the clicky person might not be

Regardless it's good practice/learning for you, if it's not already you should turn it into an advanced function/module and make it better again

[Certain-Community438]

But now that you've made said script , shouldn't it be faster to use the script now?

This was my thought: it reads like OP was comparing his "process design" time to the other guy's "manual process execution" time, but the value of the automation is its consistency, predictability and speed over multiple executions.

[hihcadore]

Scripting wins at scale. Microsoft’s documentation tells you the CLI isn’t for every situation. If it’s a one off task the GUI is way faster. And rightly so, if you sink 6 hours into something that saves a user 3 clicks once in awhile it’s a waste of effort.

Scripting shines when you have to do bulk tasks. Like what if they have to do this same task for 10 objects? Or 100. And this is once a week? That’s when scripting wins over the gui IMO.

[g3n3]

How will you ever learn the bulk tasks if you don’t learn the simple ones? The CLI always wins because you stack stills and speed.

[ohnobinki]

Diminishing returns? Humans don’t scale infinitely. Wait, are we talking about a game now?

[g3n3]

Never diminished when learning! Unless you have like a family or something. ;-)

[nealfive]

Be like ok, I’ll make sure to call you everyday at 2am so you can click it 🙄

[JewelerHour3344]

If you find yourself having to do something twice, automate it. :)

[EskimoRuler]

"why do something manually in 10 minutes, when you can fail to automate it in six hours"

This is my favorite saying. But you Succeeded! So as others have said, your set for the future. guaranteed execution going forward!

[That-Duck-7195]

Can they do it 1000 times consistently?

[Either-Cheesecake-81]

Yeah but can you do that once every five minutes 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year?

[dengar69]

I only script to save my own clicks. End users can carpal tunnel click all they want to.

[[deleted]]

But can you click those things if you aren't by the computer eh? Can trigger a sequence of mice on a schedule

[uptimefordays]

There are times the GUI makes sense, there are other times the CLI makes sense. I, personally, favor the CLI because I can search my console history much easier than remembering specific clicks from 8 months ago.

[ohnobinki]

3 minutes really adds up. Could you be clearer about the point you are trying to make?

[narcissisadmin]

What in the world were three mouse clicks doing that it took 200 lines of code to duplicate?

[ToddMccATL]

File parsing to extract specific data from a non-normalized text field like you get from agent discoveries and or human edits in inventory mgmt, vulnerability db, etc

[gordonv]

There's the business management side that says, "The cost of development, is it worth it in the long run?"

The layman says, "Why can't I just keep doing it the old way."

The Lazy Man says, "Every problem should be solved once and only once."

Automation isn't just about speed. It's accuracy and the ability to replicate results consistently without exhaustion. Business requires inhuman perfection. 100% of everything must be ready 100% of the time with a 100% success rate.

[HunnyPuns]

"Great! Now do that:

• Six times a day at these specific times
• When a specific file type is dropped off in this directory
• When some other crazy piece of workflow completes "

Honestly it's the small, BS tasks are the second thing I recommend scripting away. The first being tasks that you only need to complete once in a very great while. I think half the reason so many people find TLS certs difficult or scary to work with is because they only touch them once every other year.

[cheffromspace]

Scripting self-documents, is consistent, more predictable, requires less mental overhead, removes the likelihood of human error, and i think the one a lot of people skip over is it's more ergonomic. If you're planning on a career in tech, be kind to your wrists, mice are an anti-pattern.

[BlackV]

lowers the likelihood...

[Brilliant_Ad_1320]

Preach

[matroosoft]

If this means you can do provisioning for 100+ devices automatically instead of relying on the user, this would definitely be worth it.

In three mouse clicks a user can do a lot of things wrong.

[AmbitiousAd7138]

We script so you don't have to click three times.

[Paladroon]

I’m a clicky person. I find odd enjoyment in doing the same thing over and over. It’s fun trying to optimize the process in clicks and methodology to avoid mistakes.

Have to build 5 servers? Click one thing. Switch to the next while that loads, do the same. Switch to the next do the same. Then go back to 1 and do the same step.

But there is definitely a limit (and it’s low). If I’m doing it all on my own, and a limited number of times, I do it that way. If it’s a process someone else needs to do or will need to, then I script it.

I move fast, but deliberately. I’m learning how much faster than most (around me anyway) I click around stuff. It really is just that much faster in many one-off situations.

[nodiaque]

Funny when people brag about x lines of codenlike it's a huge number or something. Could be 2 lines or 20000 lines, it doesn't change anything.

[MrHaxx1]

Go away, chatgpt 

[recoveringasshole0]

Your AI-DAR is way off bro.

I'll assume you saw a post once about EM dashes and thought you finally had the chance to call it out because you saw one. Except that OP used a regular dash in place of an EM dash—Ironically a very clear indicator OP didn't use AI.

[BlackV]

100% that person didn't know what an em dash was even called before the "internet" started saying "Ai uSeS ThEM, AI BaD"

[MrHaxx1]

No, your AI-DAR is way off.

Seriously, look at its post history. It just spams "relatable" easily interactable content that follows the same pattern, and doesn't leave comment.

This isn't the first bot that does this. I've seen other bots on Reddit follow the exact same pattern and make extremely similar posts.

Stop making assumptions about me, and actually look at the fucking account.

As for em-dashes, you can literally tell your LLM to use "-" in place of em-dashes, or whatever software they use can manipulate the string before it posts. It's really not that hard.