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Decision fatigue degrades judgment over time

The continuous act of making choices depletes willpower, leading to impulsive or passive decisions later in the day. This psychological drain is exactly why Automating toil prevents SRE burnout.¹

Footnotes

1. Baumeister, R. F. (1998). Ego depletion. ↩