Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)
The premise of this essay seems flawed.<p>As a manager, I actively encourage my employees to automate their jobs. Almost every sprint, there is at least one task on the board to automate some mundane detail of their jobs.<p>I&#x27;m happy to have them do it.  It frees them to do more valuable work.  &quot;Pushing buttons&quot; isn&#x27;t valuable (we can&#x27;t sell it). And like most good developers, they hate sitting around pushing buttons - they&#x27;d rather work on more stimulating problems.<p>It&#x27;s win-win.  My boss sees us doing more with less.  The sales team gets more new features to sell. The employees have more rewarding days.<p>This all presupposes the employees aren&#x27;t inherently lazy.  But, that&#x27;s been my experience - &quot;lazy&quot; developers aren&#x27;t generally lazy, just bored.