Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)
In my personal experience this generally isn&#x27;t an issue.  If you have the necessary skills to automate your own job, chances are your employer has other work they want you to do.<p>I worked at a fintech company for a few years a while back.  I started in an entry level role doing daily operations stuff within their proprietary system.  It was boring but I could see that most of it could be automated if enough effort was put into it.  We were 4 people at that time.  No way our dev team had the time to do it as they were always slaughtered with an endless list of demands from other teams and higher-ups.  And no budget would ever be assigned to this.  So I took it upon myself to learn how to do it through code.  Six months later I had a solution up and running which automated about 80% of the daily work for the four of us.  Did they fire the other three people and just leave me to do that remaining 20%?  No, they took me and another one of the technically savvy people from the team and took us off the boring daily stuff entirely and put us on a DevOps style team where we managed ourselves and were told to just attach ourselves to whatever projects we want and just add value somehow.  They promoted me.  They also promoted the person who had been there the longest to make them the manager of a new Dallas team that was  being created for us to pass off the remainder of the boring stuff do, as well as new initiatives that they weren&#x27;t able to capitalize on because lack of headcount to handle the work.  The fourth member of the team also migrated into different projects around the division.  Basically, it freed everyone to do a bunch of stuff the business wanted to do but didn&#x27;t have the budget for or did have the budget for but standard corporate bullshit got in the way of.  This was like a godsend to them because they viewed it as getting 3 people just thrown in their laps for free.<p>Win-win for everyone.