The Conveyor Illusion

The first problem with automation isn't the technology, it's our impatience.

Once we flip that switch, a tiny abnormality can wreck the whole system.

(And we won't even know why.)

The thing is, we're so afraid of being slow that we skip the part where we actually understand what we're automating.

Manual first isn't inefficient, it's diagnostic.

When you've done something by hand enough times, you can spot the weird edge cases before they become system killers.

Speed doesn't create efficiency. Understanding does.

Then you can automate intelligently.