This is a perfect example of the old saying that a good programmer is a lazy programmer. Lazy programmers hate doing the same monotonous things over and over and will go to great lengths to avoid it!
This is a close cousin to what my grandfather used to call "working to get out of work" in other words spending a lot of mental effort to avoid manual labor. This usually involves fashioning a tool or device to move something that could have been moved more quickly with simple, but back-breaking manual labor.
People who are eager to get up in the morning and toil in the sweat of their brows are deeply suspect in my book.
I don't see much good coming out of that kind of attitude - when will they stop and ponder the inescapable nuances of life?
The world needs more lazy inventor types laying around daydreaming on lazyboys, not extra widget crankers milling around mindlessly in labyrinthine office hives.
This is a close cousin to what my grandfather used to call "working to get out of work" in other words spending a lot of mental effort to avoid manual labor. This usually involves fashioning a tool or device to move something that could have been moved more quickly with simple, but back-breaking manual labor.
I tend to do both of these things a lot!