Nicolas Cole argues that automation isn't always worth it. Building an automation can take as much time as doing the task manually, so you need a real cost-benefit analysis. Some tasks are better left alone because the overhead of automating them costs more than just doing them by hand.
We're in a funny point of history, which is everything can be automated. And yet I don't know that that means everything should be automated. I don't even mean that from like a moral perspective. I quite literally mean that as it might take you just as long to run an automation as it does for you to do it yourself. Not every task has to be engineered. We forget what was the original AI. The original AI was writing SOPs and internal checklists. Like you're the AI. You're like, I do this and then I do this and then I do this. And so I would think less shiny object, and I would think more isolating tasks in your life that take time and then going through the exercise of, can I reclaim time by automating some part of this, all of this, 20% of this, 80% of this? And sometimes you will find, oh, I never needed to do that task. I could automate 100%. Sometimes you'll find I could automate 50%, and sometimes you'll find the automation of it is actually less efficient than me just doing it myself.
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