A script that runs at full speed, ignores errors and tells nobody what it did is not automation. It is an incident with a schedule. Automation With Manners describes the alternative: workflows that retry with backoff, respect the limits of the systems they call, log each step and stop cleanly when something looks wrong.

Good manners are checkable. Every step should be safe to rerun, every failure should reach a person and every run should leave a record someone can read the next morning. Polite software is mostly software that can be audited.