hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Manual Work Is a Bug
> In the culture of automation, we wiggle and iterate among four overlapping phases: (1) document the steps; (2) create automation equivalents; (3) create automation; and (4) create self-service and autonomous systems.Notably missing is the most important, difficult and time-consuming (thus potentially defeating the whole purpose) phase: _maintain_ automation. The code will break, it will make incorrect assumptions, it will fail in rare edge cases, it will have unintended side effects, people will use it wrong, etc. "It works right here right now" is like 10% of the whole journey.Not only main