automagically

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automagically - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  automagically
  
     <jargon> /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/
     Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically
     because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even
     too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you.
  
     E.g. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically
     invokes cc to produce an executable."
  
     See magic.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (2001-05-18)
  

automagically - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  automagically
   /aw.toh.maj'i.klee/, adv.
  
     Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because
     it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the
     speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. "The
     C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to
     produce an executable."
  
     This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon
     and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in
     advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late
     1940s.