Ever won­dered what hap­pens to the image qual­ity if you save a jpg file 10000 times?
Sim­ple exam­ple for the use of automa­tion. Code not tested!

 
INPUTFILE=test.jpg
 
COUNT=0 while [ $COUNT -lt 10000 ] do OUTPUTFILE=$COUNT.jpg convert $INPUTFILE $OUTPUTFILE INPUTFILE=$OUTPUTFILE COUNT=`expr $COUNT + 1` done

These exam­ples are prob­a­bly super use­less. They per­form tasks that are nor­mally not part of design soft­ware, because they are use­less. But that’s the start­ing point. You can define on your own what is use­less! There is no pre-written workflow.