I'm suggesting that the boring and menial work making up the majority of your day is, in fact, your job and if it's automated to any meaningful degree, you will be unemployed rather than freed up to do more interesting thing.
I suppose we have different jobs. I and my team go out of the way to automate menial work so that we focus our time on value add for the customer more directly.
I got paid to make a simple tool and some standard conventions to make log wading. Between gateway events with errors in BPMN and correlation ids auto logged in every message, it’s pretty easy to figure out where in 40 services something blew up that failed our process.
Yes, because it's both useful and tedious. If it becomes just useful but not tedious, the price goes down but I'm also free to take on other tasks. If this happens to enough tasks, perhaps there will be need for less of us.
