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(Long story, barely related because I've managed to link computer manufacturing with a "script"):

At my first job straight after college, I wrote a utility that gathered hardware/software information, and could output it to a database, and/or leave behind that information in a file for future tech support reps to use.

We licensed that software to a large(ish) US company that built computers for Fortune 500 companies - it became part of their "build script" - essentially a checklist of items that had to be done before a computer could be sent to a customer. Whenever a computer was brought back with a problem, the file my utility wrote is one of the first things some other software looked for to present to the person running some diagnostics.

I was once brought in to visit what is essentially the manufacturing floor - I don't know how many tens of thousands of square feet it was, but that was pretty impressive for the 20-something year old I was back then. Larger than your average Costco store.

The most surreal thing however is when I was introduced to some people as the guy who wrote the utility everyone on the floor was using and familiar with. I swear some of these guys came up to me to shake my hand like I was some sort of rock star. Apparently it saved them a tremendous amount of time - not hard work, but incredibly tedious and repetitive, so they were very happy to see that part of their job being automated.
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