I've been doing technical SEO for 20 years. My first "automation" was a shell script

that pinged Google every hour to check if my site got indexed. We've come a long way.

For most of those two decades, automation meant one thing: Python. Scrapers,

crawlers, log analyzers, bulk content pipelines. I got comfortable with the idea

that if something was repetitive, you wrote a script for it. Ship it, forget it,