I'm a big believer in automation. To me, it's kinda the point of being a programmer. But it intrigues me how eager some are to eliminate all human aspects from everything. Hiring, firing, building, shrinking. Let's just automate it all with a recursive algorithm. It's just business. Nothing personal.

I'm a human. I want to be personal.

Yes, there are billions of us and I'm pretty interchangeable. But...

I get interested in silly things like when somebody gets a pay raise because they got married. What kind of business sense does that make? It's debatable. But it makes obvious people sense.

I rather enjoy living in a people world, even while I work every day to automate it.

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