You SSH into your server and run the same five commands every Sunday morning: df -h, free -h, systemctl --failed, apt list --upgradable, lastb. Five minutes of looking around to confirm nothing’s quietly broken. Multiply …
You wrote a deploy script. It SSHes into 12 servers, runs an update, comes home. The first time you run it on a fresh laptop, every server prompts: The authenticity of host ‘203.0.113.x’ can’t be established. Continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?. …
You set up a cron job. It runs nightly at 3 AM. Some nights it succeeds; some nights it doesn’t — but you never know which because cron’s only feedback is supposed to be email, and email-from-cron has been silently …
If you live in a terminal, the macOS Shortcuts app feels like a toy. Drag-and-drop blocks, no version control, no diff, no set -e, no way to grep through what you wrote last month. Why would anyone use it …