[ruraljuror]

> If you see those things as "the boring bits" that you don't want to do then you're not a developer. You're a hacker.

This point parallels the distinction made in the Software Engineering at Google flamingo book between programming and engineering. Engineering comprises the tools and processes to maintain software over time (this is a rough paraphrase), of which docs, for example, is essential.

So to use their language with your point: this sounds purely like programming and perhaps not engineering.