I was working as a stockboy in a supermarket and when we had to fill the milk cooler people would bust open a 12 pack of milk cartons and put them in one by one.
On my first day I just placed the 12 pack in the cooler and cut the plastic off on one side with my box cutter and yanked it from under it and the look of the store manager and the other employee who was training me was pure bewilderment.
From that day everyone did it my way.
Literally, every day all day in software development. I break up the code into small parts that can be reused and repurpose those small bits to form larger bits so I have less code to type and maintain.
IT in general as well. I’m a sysadmin, and half of my job some days is to script/automate simple and annoying tasks to free up a tech to do something more complicated/harder to automate.
I’m also the sort who has spent hours figuring out how to automate a couple clicks in the UI because I’m sick of doing repetitive bs clicking all the time lol
I do the same for our support documentation too. Is a question asked 3x in a month? Straight to the FAQ you go.
Some questions have been asked for Years. I’ve never understood why some people spend 100x the amount of time on a question than they ever needed to.
I don’t mean to start promoting some software but this is why I use Alfred on Mac. The entire software is about removing all the fake tasks that we do during a day. I set up my entire day and experience to be just a couple of keystrokes away.