If you “automate everything” you end up with cargo-cult of your process.
What you should do instead is employing Elon’s 5 steps protocol (“the Algorithm”) that consists of in order:
- Question (requirements)
- Delete
- Simplify / Optimize
- Accelerate (cycle time)
- Automate
Always. In. That. Order.
If you automate something that meets unnecessary requirements – you’re doing it wrong.
If you automate something that shouldn’t even exist – you’re doing it wrong.
If you automate something before you try and simplify it real hard – you’re doing it wrong.
If you automate something prior to accelerating it’s cycle time – you’re doing it wrong.
Every such automation helps cultivate current pathology.
Possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimise a thing that should not exist,
Elon
What a waste it is to automate “everything”!
Automate aggressively but first own the progress and make sure you automate the right thing.
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