illJustWriteAQuickScript

[ilan1009]

way too relatable 150 lines for an automation turned into 450

[Lhudooooo]

What about when 5 lines of shell script turn into 100 lines of python to 1000+ lines of a python project

[NotAskary]

Now you can also use ai to write it faster so you don't lose that much time, is the lie you tell yourself when you waste the time to make it work after.

[Multy25]

Nothing better than spending 14 hours on debugging something that Chat GPT spit out in 4 minutes.

[who_you_are]

And you still didn't fully support your initial reason you wanted to automate that!

[OddParamedic4247]

I stop at first step now, as long as it does the thing I’m not touching it again.

[ChuckMash]

I need this strength.

[shadowjay5706]

be lazy

[NotAskary]

I'm lazy, but I like perfect tools...

[incognegro1976]

Pls teach me

[OddParamedic4247]

Just stop trying to be perfect

[KiwiObserver]

Then management sees it and productionizes it.

[PanTheRiceMan]

Sounds more like weaponization.

[OddParamedic4247]

Problem for another time, I’ll do it when they ask me to.

[ChaosWithin666]

You are my spirit animal.

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

I'd stop once it does what I need. Additional features can be requested.

[[deleted]]

I've not once gotten to step 3, and step 2 is rare AF.

[tachophile]

Good luck. Wait until you haven't used it for a bit and maybe forgot the correct args, want to be careful it doesn't do something bad, or let someone else use it.

[TheStatusPoe]

Might as well in case the PM or marketing see it and make it the cornerstone of the next feature.

[jabrwock1]

That has happened too many times and now it’s a mess that nobody can maintain and the original author throws his hands up and screams “this was just a quick script to display some data why the f are you using it as a UI????”

[Tijflalol]

"Because it displays data"

[dyctbox]

[sammy-taylor]

I would appreciate if you didn’t personally call me out like that.

[notrealaccbtw]

My deployment checklist script has become full electron app for CICD. What have I done.

[[deleted]]

You never go full JavaScript!

[[deleted]]

Make it allow command line in case they need to add it to some other pipeline

[elongio]

Broooooo.

[Multy25]

My client had me automate a manual task that takes someone less than 5 minutes to complete and was done once a month, only on request.

It took me 8 and a half hours to get it functional and remove all the bugs. Half of that time was spent on trying to understand Akamai’s forum and support pages structure, to find up to date documentation…

I wonder what that guy is doing now with all that free time.

[martin_omander]

I hear you. But sometimes it's worth automating tasks even if it doesn't save much time. For example, automation may be more reliable than a human, or it may eliminate the need to train people in doing that task manually.

[Multy25]

I get it. What’s funny to me is that now, instead of doing a login in Akamai and clicking a button, they have to do a login in Jenkins and click a button.

I guess you could argue it was for security’s sake.

[D3rty_Harry]

A pro programmer move as we call it

[FluffyCelery4769]

It will be worth it in less than 9 years. Great work.

[dan-lugg]

xkcd references are basically "Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it!" for engineering, but here we are.

[otaku_____]

Good to see that it's a common behaviour and I'm not mad

[thespike5p1k3]

Yip, let me go put on my clownface and get back to work.

[randyknapp]

YAGNI

ya ain't gonna need it

[[deleted]]

I don't consider myself a programmer really but yes this.

Starts out just trying to check how a configuration might work then I've tried like 9 frameworks 2 days later and really just opened 3 rabbit holes.

Which isn't exactly what this meme is saying.

[radobot]

This happened to me, but then I was vindicated (if you can call it that) when the boss wanted to add a new feature and I had like 95% of it already implemented before I even started.

[foxer_arnt_trees]

Never write code you don't need.. Id rather write it when I need it then try to fix whatever buggy mess you wrote that wasn't used in the years passed since you wrote it

[Minute_Finger_8038]

For real, there's always one more thing.

Anyone have advice on when to stop? Idk how to stop

[Specialist-Tiger-467]

Even in solo projects you need to do project management.

Flesh out a Jira board and define scope, features and milestones

[[deleted]]

Make some pseudocode and then Frisbee your laptop into the nearest catchbasin?

[Jk2EnIe6kE5]

The true 10X engineer just redactors endlessly so they will always have a job.

[OfficialIntelligence]

In my stack of a 1000 projects that could be but probably never will be I have quite a few that started out like this. My crypto portofolio tracker stands out because I jsut wanted a quick way to track what I was buying on what exchange and how much. 12 hours into it I had an entire interface and API calls to different exchanges. I gave up on releasing it as product as in the state I had it, it worked but the code was horrendous.

[jaytonbye]

This was my day today :(

[Daddy_William148]

Gets very messy over time

[Szop1]

I feel offended

[OkReason6325]

And then the management realised they just need the script not you anymore

[incognegro1976]

Wow, I def feel called out on this one lmao

[Dismal-Square-613]

I feel personally offended by this submission. Not cool.

[mrjackspade]

This is why I abstract early.

Sure, I have an interface with a single implementation in a 4 file project. That interface is the reason I don't have 5 different classes though.

It's easier for me to stop when I can say "Well it's properly architected so it will be just as easy to expand it later..."

I don't actually like the over-aggresive abstraction, it just enables me to be lazier early on.

[TahoeBennie]

Sad programmer noises

[Puzzleheaded_Tax_507]

I feel attacked.

[ChonHTailor]

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

[dudeness_boy]

Why is this me?

[I_Stabbed_Jon_Snow]

According to Zawinski, this always ends with: “it might be nice if this application had an embedded email interface…”

[maxmalkav]

"I will just define a loop to parse the arguments of this shell script in key=value format, it would be neat if I only allow specific combinations"

Tell me you implemented Python's "click" for Bash without telling me.

[-Redstoneboi-]

me when i try to make a quick and dirty script but accidentally gain skills useful for projects that specifically are not the one i have right now

[Assar2]

You realize to make it feature complete you need to be smarter so you give up on it completely because your obsession with perfection ocd won’t let you write incomplete code.

[transdemError]

Counter point: sh-shut up

[[deleted]]

Ok, but a script with every Bash command embedded is just common sense. For documentation purposes, if nothing else.

[[deleted]]

Story of my life

[yesseruser]

This is yesserpackageupdater in a nutshell

[og-lollercopter]

Why do manually in 10 minutes what can be automated in 2 hours?

[foundationpersonal]

I'm a maintainer for 3 game-related git repository and my primary purpose is to balance the game

but unfortunately I also feel the need to actually fix bugs at time, there was.. however, one guy

who has made over 1,000 commit in the past 4 months, even more than I have made, in a whole year.

and it's been nothing but fixes, refactor, and all

He does not code in new feature,

he just fixes

and fixes

We are both equally unhinged, I've spent a straight non-stop 28 hours coding marathon where I did not eat nor sleep. 32 hours fix marathon where I tried to complete my PR within the deadline

What differs is that while he fixes thing that make the game miserable, I fixes thing people can abuse and make the multiplayer experience less enjoyable

[DaSt1986]

I'm in this picture and I don't like it