The US Navy is exploring ships that are more highly automated. The crew is smaller, and their roles are generalist problem solvers.
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Could you build an entirely automated open source project?
For example, suppose you're trying to make the fastest gzip library. You could write a bot that automatically accepted and released any pull requests that improved the benchmark! No human intervention needed at all.
Transitioning from manual to automated processes, and the role of documentation:
I would not want to run https://example.com/: any large service probably has buggy automated systems hammering it, but https://example.com/ is almost certainly worse.
On the plus side, I suppose they have no paying customers or SLA to worry about.