I've mentioned this here before, but this sort of thing has been going on for a long time.
When the SF writer Arthur C. Clarke was a young man he had a tedious civil service job that involved merging and consolidating figures (IIRC, it had something to do with government pensions, and he got the job because he scored well on a math test). Since the final numbers only had to be accurate to within a few percent, he started using his slide rule to get his day's quota done before noon then take the rest of the day off.
When the SF writer Arthur C. Clarke was a young man he had a tedious civil service job that involved merging and consolidating figures (IIRC, it had something to do with government pensions, and he got the job because he scored well on a math test). Since the final numbers only had to be accurate to within a few percent, he started using his slide rule to get his day's quota done before noon then take the rest of the day off.