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Partial Automation
Page started: 2025-06-24
This XKCD is the classic take on whether or not automating things is worth the time:
Increasingly, I’m finding a really nice middle ground in partial automation.
That is, scripts that guide me through a processes, but don’t attempt to do the whole task unattented, can give me a ton of value while being extremely easy to make.
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todo; write that card about using vim as an interface (editing rsync params, wasn’t it?)
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todo: link to my book review vim semi-automation
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todo: find that article i read long ago about scripts as documentation