It’s not about the bike: Difference between revisions

Automating might give you a short-term productivity bump, but you’ll rapidly bank it and, anyway, if ''you'' can automate a process, so can anyone else. And then there are the downstream costs. Not just the [[Rent-seeking|rent extracted]] by the software vendor, the internal bureaucratic overhead in maintaining, auditing, approving and renewing the software, training legal users, updating the content — the knock-on pain of solving a problem which wasn’t, actually, that you needed Kevlar forks, but that ''you needed to go on a diet and get in shape''.  

And this is not to mention the problem of figuring out what to do if there’s a [[system accident]].