Task Automation Debate
This cluster debates the merits and drawbacks of automating repetitive tasks versus doing them manually, questioning when automation adds value, frees up time for human strengths, or leads to unnecessary complexity.
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What automated processes could be done better manually by a competent person?
Next time, don't do something automate-able. You're a human, remember? Do things that only humans can do.
Curious why you think this. Do you not believe there is some value in automation of certain tasks?
Or don't automate it and enjoy the extra slack time
at an internship in college (large consumer electronics company) one of my daily tasks was to take an export from the ERP system, format it in a specific way, save it to a shared drive and email to a few different people. it was really repetitive, fairly simplistic and the report from the ERP was very consistent.after about 2 weeks of doing this every day i thought there had to be a way to automate it, so I did. i set the ERP report to be emailed to me, set an email rule to save attachment to
You can automate things to free humans up to do what only humans are good at.
If you can't do something right, don't automate it, I suppose.
The hardest things to automate are always the things that are so easy for us they don't even register consciously
"Before we automate it, we should think about if we can avoid doing the task altogether" is a red flag to you?
Not everything is meant to be automated.