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I don't, because stuff like that is a little too touchy to wrap in a cute shell alias. If I'm going to update a box, I'm going to update a box. If I'm going to reboot a machine, I want to be reminded that I'm going to reboot a machine (which in turn is a reminder that there are other people using stuff there and not to fuck their days up without at least a little warning).
It's just bunch of commands run with a single call, an automation. As long as I know exactly what each command is doing and if I wrote the alias myself, then I think its not a problem. What problem do you see with an update-alias such as I did there? The update-command does exactly that, it updates the box with all relevant package managers.
However if other people are also using the box, then its obviously a different situation. I wouldn't want to be reckless in the operation either; respect other users, even if you can do whatever you want.
It's not that. It's not getting complacent by eliding the semantics of what you're doing. It's being consciously aware that you're doing something that could possibly fuck stuff up.