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Ask HN: Is there a such thing as an automation tool?

1 points by WesternStar ↗ HN
The history of precision in the industrial revolution is rife with machine tools. Machines that make machines. Do we have automation for the process of making automation? I think AutoML is slightly different. Is this question meaningful or "not even wrong" in your opinion?

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tgflynn
It seems like a robot that builds robots would be one example.

Another would be a program that writes programs. There's a word for that: metaprogramming and people do it all the time.

WesternStar
More a robot that build robots. I mean like you are running a service and something automagically builds the automation for running that service given a few inputs.