Consistently. I think this is one of the best applications of being able to program -- is solving your problems with it. A recent automation program I wrote will save one of my businesses about 365 hours a year and will boost customer satisfaction. (I automated a process on http://creditcovers.com that would take about an hour a day, but I hated doing it, so I would often put it off and then sporadically batch it, which led to lots of unhappy customers. Now it happens every day at 2am automatically and it is really an incredible improvement to my life.)