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> It lowers the activation energy for automating tasks

Does that mean the "do-nothing script" should eventually have some automated steps that do-something?

As a placeholder for future possible automation, this feels like the right balance between automation and efficiency. It allows you to make the first stab without investing too much and it leaves some low-hanging fruit for another time when the effort might be more obviously worthwhile. Thanks for sharing!



Yes.

> Each step of the procedure is now encapsulated in a function, which makes it possible to replace the text in any given step with code that performs the action automatically.




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