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I spent about a year writing a whole library of AHK scripts that could be mixed and matched to completely automate working within a legacy database system. Data entry people loved it and I even had a number of excel integrations for the people who keep everything in spreadsheets. Also GUIs, etc.

It beats the hell out of copy-pasting from one app to the other and hoping you're doing it right. 8 hours of data entry you are bound to make mistakes.

AHK also helped me move into more technical work, so I have a real soft spot for it. However, I am lamenting the move to SaaS websites because not only are there about 3x as many clicks as a native app, but it's really hard to automate with AHK.




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