When I find myself spending time over and over again on repetitive tasks like fighting an inadequate editor or tools, or writing CRUD-like code over and over, I take some time to automate away the nuisance, for example, switching to a more appropriate editor, or refactoring out common code and only describe the differences from there on, or maybe find a better tool for the job.

I have experienced coworkers who didn't do this. They figured out how to do certain tasks and keep repeating it into eternity, without giving a thought to how they could work more efficiently.