# Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation – Dan Slimmon

<https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Cool idea to make even a simple written SOP into a piece of code. Why? You reduce the friction required if someone in the future wants to take a component of the SOP and write automation for it. 🤔

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## Appears in

- [WT202: Weekly Thing #202 / Goalies, Curves, Spiders](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/202/), Notable

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