The thing I like about making automated mistakes is that when I fix that mistake it usually doesn't happen again.
I also wonder about the percent of mistakes made.
A long time back I made some scripts to bulk load new employees into our associate management software. Before that it took an admin loading them in one at a time. The admin could probably get one employee entered, give or take, per minute, given network latency. The script had delays and such to not slam the network, but ran in the background. My first version got a field wrong for 90 or so employees, but I just had to do some small modification and it went back and fixed them all.
Basically, I made 90 or so mistakes, but managed to make the mistake and fix it in a tenth the time it took to manually enter all of them, and then that mistake was never made again.
I guess a lot of it depends on how critical correctness is straight out of the gate (like in your case). For our purposes, it was fine.
I also wonder about the percent of mistakes made.
A long time back I made some scripts to bulk load new employees into our associate management software. Before that it took an admin loading them in one at a time. The admin could probably get one employee entered, give or take, per minute, given network latency. The script had delays and such to not slam the network, but ran in the background. My first version got a field wrong for 90 or so employees, but I just had to do some small modification and it went back and fixed them all.
Basically, I made 90 or so mistakes, but managed to make the mistake and fix it in a tenth the time it took to manually enter all of them, and then that mistake was never made again.
I guess a lot of it depends on how critical correctness is straight out of the gate (like in your case). For our purposes, it was fine.