We all know that automation is good. No one likes boring repetitive task that can be passed to a machine to execute. But if we specifically and regularly are forced to change our code just to accommodate automation, well then "you are doing it wrong". Yes there are decisions that we need to make so that automation is possible, but it is possible through clean, well structured and maintainable code. That is it. (here is an article with the same opinion and some more things: http://ithare.com/testing-my-personal-take-on-testing-including-unit-testing-and-atddbdd/).
Automation should bend backwards, sideways and any other way to fit our workflow, not the other way around. Otherwise we are in the case of those memes, which mock "doing automation the manual way".
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