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Well, the wall-clock time may be longer, but the human time is much shorter. As long as you have one meal's worth of slack in the amount of crockery you have, the dishwasher wins by a country mile in the amount of effort expended.


Yes, but as I said, and the math changes for different automations, the time (and ease) vary

Automate dishwashing for a 10 party dinner: no brainer

Automate dishwashing for one plate, one fork and one knife. Not advantageous

Automate generating a manual report that takes 30min and needs to run everyday: no brainer also

Automate a report that needs one piece of data that's easy to get and needs to run once a month: does it really matter?




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