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"Automate the routine work, and the humans are left with the rare, hard cases, with less practice than ever." Lianne Bainbridge, "Ironies of Automation" Automatica 1983. Quoted by Jana Chen, baseten SRE at O11y Day in London, a @honeycomb.io event.

7/10/26, 1:39 pm1 repost9 likes

Cat Hicks

@grimalkina.bsky.social

All the more reason a strong practice of rapid learning, and efficient learning (in the sense that we mean in learning sciences which is to say more quickly getting to structural understanding and strategies) is a game changer the more we automate work!