| Tip 12 | Automate Your Pain Away |
 | [White Belt] You can start automating tasks for yourself no matter what your role or how your project is structured. (Plus, it’s a given that newbies will be given some mundane tasks—exactly the kind of tasks that beg for automation.) |
In any industry project, the program build is automated, so you just need to type make or click a button. The tools used for compiling source code, however, are generic automation tools; they can be used for a lot more than running compilers. Like many of the topics we’ve discussed, automation is a productivity multiplier—use it well, and the time invested up front multiplies your effort ...
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