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Lazy programmers are great. I like them. The best ones are those that come to work at 10 and leave at 3 (or play video games at 3ish). The ones whose goal in life is to work less.
Why? Because they automate everything. They are the ones that do something twice only to swear up and down that they won't do the same thing a third time. They'd rather punch up a script that does the job for them and move on to a more interesting problem. But even more importantly, it does the job when they're not around. It's not just something that improves productivity. It's a footprint that others can read and understand. It's like the factory system of old. Find easy, repeatable tasks, then find people who can easily repeat these very small chunks of tasks that, when added up are the entirety of product production. When each person is gone, they are easily replaceable and there is little interruption to the system. When these small chunks of tasks were automated, the factory produced more output.The lesson is that automation is a good thing when it comes to technology. So show me the couch potato who wants to achieve something with the smallest amount of work, and I'll show you a valuable resource.
