The darker version is:
- Identify someone you don’t like in the organization.
- Automate away their job by coding a script in a few hours.
- They get laid off, the script never gets run. No one notices.
Someone not liking a programmer or writer is ChatGPT’s origin story
… this is me with excel files for random bookkeeping shit lol. Everyone’s are so ugly… but I’m making these look nice for all of like… 3 different people that use them lol. So at least when I have to do these random tasks twice a year… they look nice! Even if the old stuff worked or doing it by hand with a legal pad was sufficient… I gotta have that Excel column auto sum damn it!
ADHD is a bitch sometimes.
its obviously something you excel at
Hahahaha guys look he did the thing
I do the same thing at my work. We have to update pricing information for 100,000s of items so I made templates for our team with xlookups and if-then statements so it takes less than one second.
I still catch people doing it manually every 6 months…