Asklemmy

automation and scripting, especially in the tech world. managers love lazy tech employees because they typically hate doing boring tasks and will automate everything they hate. "never do anything twice"

I've always joked with my coworkers that I'm so efficient because I'm lazy as hell. Why cut one piece of trim at a time when you can build a jig that allows you to cut 5 at once?

The upside: I look like a wizard with all the work I can get done and nobody wants to do my job, so I have plenty of security.

The downside: I get a lot of extra work and I can feel burnt out sometimes.

Back the early days of computers programmers had to talk to the computers with very specific instructions, a simple thing like adding two numbers would take several punch cards on binary. Then they invented assemblers. A shorthand for machine code, now every instruction had a small keyword and the assembler made the machine code. This saved programmers hundreds of hours of coding and debugging. Then came the compilers, with them you could write something closer to normal language and the computer would translate it, this saved even more time than assemblers. After that came the interpreters, with compilers you have to compile a program for every single platform but with interpreters you can take let's say a python script and run it on every platform that has the python interpreter saving kits of time when moving apps to other platforms

You know when you're at work and you're like "This is so stupid, why do we do this this way??"

That's my whole career now, and they call it consulting.

Makes sense. Windows kind of felt like it was built by a lazy person in the 90’s.