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[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 38 points 6 days ago

xkcd 1205

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago

I know it's supposed to be a joke how a nerd will spend six hours writing a script to automate a 30second task but.... it's not really funny.

Working with less-experienced developers, I'm amazed at how slow everything is for them: No keyboard shortcuts, no automated scripts, just slow, plodding mouse-driven tinkering.

Automation, shortcuts, and scripting drive your ability to iterate and therefore learn.

Train your fingers, and spend those hours automating repetitive stuff. It's worth it.

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 5 days ago

On the flip-side, when I learned Autocad, I customized the interface to be more efficient with my workflow - I worked significantly faster, probably saving 20-30 minutes a day by having my quick-access macros, etc.

Then I went to another location and started trying to work on a colleague's Autocad interface, and I was helpless - I had never learned the default command set, I had to describe to him what I wanted to do (like he was ChatGPT or something) so he could make it happen. Over the next year, I retrained to use the default command set - and because I was using it less and less the time-loss was becoming trivial at that point.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Experience doesn't even have much to do with it. I've seen developers working much longer than me do the same.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 6 days ago

Sometimes the manual steps grow like weeds. Where I'm at now, they haven't invested in automation much at all. Now deploys take all day. Making a code change is a sweaty manual regression search process. It's bad.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

it's worse when everything is manual because they don't "trust scripts" due to them not fully understanding what automation means.

[+] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 7 points 6 days ago

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[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

Two Spidermen pointing at each other meme

I swear we must have started posting at the same time, but adding an alt text to the image cost me 2 minutes apparently. xD

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 9 points 6 days ago

Having alt-text makes yours superior; I will, therefore, cede the content to you. :)

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

...and now my popcorn has gone stale. Fuck you guys and your civil discourse!

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

You should write a script to automate it

[-] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

hey, the 24 hours i invested were totally worth it to save 30 minutes of work over a year!

[-] Specter@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Great! Now you just have to ensure you stay at your job for at least 48 years so that this automation really starts to pay off!

[-] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Why spend 10 minutes doing a task when you can automate it in 6 hours?

[-] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

So then you break even after using the automation to do the task 144 times.

Seems like a decent trade-off

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