Automate All the Things

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  1. A meme-like slogan expressing the desire to automate every repetitive or manual task in a workflow, often with both enthusiasm and irony. It reflects a real engineering instinct toward reducing toil, even if total automation is not always wise or worth the cost.

    In plain English: A joking way to say repetitive work should be automated wherever possible.

    Example: "The team’s answer to onboarding pain was predictable: automate all the things."

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