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I've used it for decades to mean "automatically as if by magic" in the sense of Arthur C Clake's quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

To flip this adage around: calling your own tech as performing something "automagically" is tantamount to calling it "sufficiently advanced technology".




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