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You can make it better by investing a lot of time playing around with the tooling so that it produces something more akin to what you're looking for.

Good luck convincing your boss that this ungodly amount of time spent messing around with your tooling for an immeasurable improvement in your delivery is the time well spent as opposed to using that same amount of time delivering results by hand.

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You literally have it backwards. It's the bosses that are pulling engineers aside and requiring adoption of a tooling that they're not even sure justifies the increase in productivity versus the cost of setting up the new workflows. At least anecdotally, that's the case.

I don't disagree with that, my claim is that bosses don't know what they're doing. If all of the pre-established quality standards go out the window, that's completely fine with me, I still get paid just the same, but then later on I get to point to that decision and say "I told you so".

Luckily for me, I'm fortunate enough to not have to work in that sort of environment.

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