Automation is seductive because it promises speed. But speed is a multiplier: applied to a good process, it multiplies results; applied to a bad one, it multiplies the problem.

Automating a step that should not exist is spending effort to do, faster, something that did not need to be done. The apparent gain hides the real cost: now the error has scale.

That is why, before automating, Arxon asks whether the step should exist at all. Often the best automation is elimination, and what remains, then yes, is worth speeding up.