I agree with the editorial. After all, if I had to manually do things on each of my dozen servers every day, I'd be more likely to miss one or make a mistake, and it seems like alot of work. With automation that I've built, I can see that "all's well" with my SQL Servers in a couple of minutes reading my morning reports. Although none of my scripts or tools that I've built have genuine people personalities. Maybe my expectations of how the systems should behave or tell me that something is wrong is unreasonable, but then again, doesn't "all progress depend on the unreasonable man"?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

So I build scripts and tools around the existing systems to be lazy! 😀