[TuringTest]

Following your metaphor, we're at a point equivalent to people needing to call a scribe to write their tweets and Facebook posts for them.

In programming, there's no tool that allow non-priests to automate repetitive tasks over data sets (though there are some simple trigger-based programmable actions, like Automator or ITTT).

The closest thing allowing end-users to handle repetitive data manipulation is the Spreadsheet, but it requires manual input-output of data, and it isn't easily integrated with actions in the operating system or other applications.

[lifeisstillgood]

We are at a point where people need scribes to download their data and process it. Software is not writing - it's software and it needs an ecosystem around it. It's why it is just wrong that phones are locked down and you cannot get root or a command line.

Reading and Writing we have sorted. We can write on Facebook ok. what we cannot do is arrange our data so it can be iterated over by our script / agents.