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by shon 929 days ago
100% John, I do mean trivial programs.

It’s the stuff that you should not bother an engineer to do, but it can’t be done (in a reasonable timeframe) by a business person or even a technical IT person who isn’t proficient at code.

There’s a space there, a practical need for things that are boring or obnoxious for an actual SWE but that fill some business need or use case. ChatGPT fills these in nicely.