Definition: automagically

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Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

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)

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) 

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.