270 Iterative Refinement Of Automation

title: “Iterative Refinement of Automation” tags: [“kb”]

This document describes the principle of iteratively refining automation to eliminate recurring errors.

The Insight

A task that seems complete after a manual fix (e.g., a kubectl cp command) is often a source of recurring errors. These manual steps are fragile and prone to failure.

The Principle

We should actively identify and convert such manual fixes into robust, automated scripts. The process of creating an automation script, while requiring debugging of its own, ultimately eliminates a class of future errors.

This principle of “automating the fix” is a key part of our self-improving process architecture.