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by hyperpallium2 1910 days ago
Yes, developers are in the way. A selling point of SQL was management could use it directly for analysis; and spreadsheets were a kind of no-code solution. Yet developers were still needed.

Wikipedia's description of RPA suggests something somewhere has gone terribly wrong:

  RPA systems develop the action list by watching the user perform that task in the application's graphical user interface (GUI), and then perform the automation by repeating those tasks directly in the GUI. 
Not analogous, but reminds me of The Feeling of Power (Isaac Asimov) https://archive.org/stream/TheFeelingOfPower/The+Feeling+of+...