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'm happy to have them do it.  It frees them to do more valuable work.  "Pushing buttons" isn't valuable (we can't sell it). And like most good developers, they hate sitting around pushing buttons - they'd rather work on more stimulating problems.<p>It'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't inherently lazy.  But, that's been my experience - "lazy" developers aren't generally lazy, just bored.