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I Got Tired of Repeating Tasks So I Wrote These Python Scripts
It started the same way burnout always does: not with a dramatic breakdown, but with a sigh.
I was on my third coffee, automating the same boring task for the third time that week, when it hit me I wasn’t tired of Python. I was tired of pretending repetition was “part of the job.”
So I wrote a script.
That script saved me ten minutes.
Then another saved me an hour.
Then someone saw one on GitHub, shared it… and suddenly my DMs were full of developers asking, “How did you think of this?”
This article is not about clever tricks.
It’s about what happens when you stop chasing novelty and start eliminating friction and how a few small Python scripts quietly changed how I work, learn, and think about programming.
The Real Enemy Isn’t Complexity It’s Repetition
Most developers don’t burn out from hard problems.
They burn out from solving the same easy problem too many times.
Renaming files.
Cleaning CSVs.
Checking logs.
Comparing configs.
Copy-pasting boilerplate and hoping nothing breaks.
