Comment by dougmwne

You are so right from a business standpoint. But what about personal development? This is one of the ways developers are born. Sure the first one or ten attempts to automate something might be a net loss to the business, but eventually that junior employee has leveled up their programming skills and developed an estimating sense of when to automate and when to suck it up. It's easy to sit at our place of knowledge and tut at the beginers but we were all beginers once.