do stuff manually:
- prone to human error, can break stuff
automate with software:
- buggy, can break stuff
Solution?
- Never Do Anything
Let the moss take your body back into the earth
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in reply to @catball's post:
every time I automate something at work it kicks the human error one step up production pipeline and introduces new possible bugs. professional rube goldberg machine babysitter here
My favorite example of this is “let’s make the binary application super small and super simple”, followed by “oh god how are our configs so complex and dangerous. Oh god why is the bottleneck that we’re sending one zillion RPCs around microservices. Oh god, highly concurrent highly distributed systems”
Like, sometimes you move the complexity to somewhere altogether worse; places harder to test, harder to observe, harder to reason with