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Do not hire someone to babysit the tools

There is a quiet trap where owners build a pile of automations, get overwhelmed keeping track of them, and then hire someone whose whole job becomes managing the tools instead of doing real work. That is backwards. If a system needs constant hand-holding to function, the fix is usually a simpler system, not a person permanently assigned to watch it.

This matters because automation is supposed to buy back time, not create a brand new role dedicated to supervising it. When a setup gets so tangled that someone has to babysit it full time, that is a signal the automation was built poorly or grew too complicated too fast, not proof that it needs a dedicated caretaker on payroll. I've simplified more than one of my own automations rather than assign someone to babysit it, and the simpler version always won.

Try this today: look at your most complicated automation and ask honestly whether it needs a person watching it constantly. If it does, spend time simplifying it instead of assigning someone to manage the mess.

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