I get that, but it also can turn into wiki checklists of things that could be automated.

one of my frustrations of bigco software is people taking basically maintenance roles where the computer tells them what to do, because the lava flow legacy code base is too scary to touch.

however, you can automate your daily clean up tasks. it's certainly shellacking more mud on the ball, but if you're not going to even try scripting your repetitive tasks, then i don't know why you're a programmer.