When you think of automation, it is hard not to immediately picture robots operating on a factory floor or endlessly producing code, but this subject is much more complicated, nuanced, and ultimately impactful than the tropes around it when applied to software...
Machines have many vital parts. If I asked you what an important part of a car is, you almost certainly just thought of something hard, maybe metal, maybe heavy, but you didn’t think about any of the many fluids that make a car function. The hard metal parts are...