Automating his own bug-filing job at Apple lifted output from 50 to 300 reports a day and earned a fast promotion
jdluk87 · x · 2026-11-11
The author shares that his fastest career promotion came from automating the job he was hired to do. At Apple, he turned a tedious, multi-step bug-filing process into a one-tap flow, raising bug reports from 50 to 300 a day.
It's a counterintuitive case of automating your own role into a promotion rather than a threat.
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