Automate!
summary
Research finds 89% of experienced developers pick automates tasks as the single most helpful teammate behaviour, because automation acts as executable documentation you can run and inspect. Examples and tooling run from quick scripts in Python, AWK and ORC to small internal tools; discussion contrasts scripting versus shipping production code and shows automation reducing manual errors, surfacing hidden steps, and trimming technical debt with reproducible, runnable processes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 0:32The irony of developer neglect
- 1:10Research into developer collaboration
- 2:00Why automating tasks matters
- 2:53Automation as executable documentation
- 3:36Tools and scripting reflections
- 3:58Python, AWK, and beyond
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