Justin Skycak: You Haven't Earned the Right to Automate Until You've Felt the Manual Friction
repligate · x · 2026-09-28
Justin Skycak argues that you must grind through concrete examples before jumping up a level of abstraction. His core point: you cannot optimize what you haven't mastered manually — you haven't earned the right to automate until you've felt the friction of the manual labor. A timely principle for the AI era: understand the workflow deeply before handing it to automation.
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