Colour me jelly. Old school Unix guys are the kind of boomers I’d probably enjoy being around and ask stuff from.

Imo Automation is good when done well, but if anything I’d say half the problems at companies I’ve seen - including my own workplace - come from automating things that shouldn’t be in some ugly way that inevitably breaks at the slightest change and that would work much better if there was just a person doing it manually instead.