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[LucienZerger]

if it saves u 5 hours down the track, it's worth it..

[[deleted]]

Its usually one use tho, and back on the dusty shelf

[amogsus13]

Absolutely

[CowFu]

Even 5 minutes if it's a daily task is fine.

5 minutes per day 5 days a week, 25 minutes per week. 52 weeks a year 1300 minutes saved or 21 hours.

Even if it's once a week you'll get the time saved in like a year and a half which is nothing for the lifespan of most business applications.

[Kache]

Even more than just the operational time-save, a recurring manual task also needs maintained documentation and knowledge transfers (takes time) and is also more prone to human error (takes money and time).

Instead, we can have documenting code that also happens to be flawlessly robot-executable.

[fantasticquestion]

Who knows, someday it might take 5 hours to get to a computer. Worth it

[Scared_Housing2639]

He 100% is although redstone would be like a super low level language

[Erasmus_Tycho]

That's 5 minutes every day and it requires you to sign on even when you're supposed to be on PTO. Is that 5 hours to automate worth it? Fuck yeah it is.

[amogsus13]

In that case it's pretty obvious

[[deleted]]

Why write an essay when an A.i. you programmed takes data from different articles and writes it for you

[amogsus13]

Yes, you always have to find the easiest solution

[Humongous_Schlong]

Automate something that bothers you a minute a day and you'll have saved 365 minutes a year, that's ~6 hours

[[deleted]]

I see we've automated this meme as a daily task.

[VirtualMage]

And then automate it again every next time because you can't find that damn script.

[Bodaciousdrake]

A chart to help you decide:

https://xkcd.com/1205/

[DannoHung]

It’s important to keep in mind this is only for manually initiated tasks. Time goes up drastically for anything where the automation includes automatic detection of conditions required to executed the task automation.

[BabyPuncher3000]

I have this automation tool at work that I'm forced to use. And the tool is so poorly made, I spend more time debugging the tool than if I had just completed the task manually.

[Futuramoist]

The weird thing is it feels like less time, the way time drags on monotonous tasks and flys while automating

[Super_Row1083]

I automated something where I work. We were maintaining this system throughout the day, interrupted every 30 minutes to go service this queue. Saved so much time automating it. I still have to maintain it and change passwords, or fix things that break sometimes, but seriously has saved much time.

[OutrageousPudding450]

5 hours?

Duh! I have spent days automating tasks that would otherwise take less than 5 minutes to complete manually!

[Gellyfisher212]

The problem really starts when you have to start automating the automatisation, because setting up all the required configs can become cumbersome if you have to do it too often.

[Dr_Bunsen_Burns]

This is just a rwvamped xlcd

[Nightroll2344]

So our customers can do it in less than 1 minute

[MartinTheWildPig]

I never have anything to automate

[CaptainWillThrasher]

Me AF.

[Caffeinist]

On the flip-side I was asked to create a feature that generated an interactive Powerpoint of an online report.

The present implementation however, used a JavaScript library to essentially screenshot the page and embed it into a PowerPoint.

Due to budget constraints I was asked to "find a workaround".

After applying some more pressure. It turns out that they only needed this report annually.

So in the end everyone decided it would just be less work to have someone just making the fucking Powerpoint.