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by alphager 898 days ago
Sure, but they are there for the /big/ problems. The myriad of small real-life problems that sometimes are solved by an intern with Excel and VBA are way too small to get handed to the professionals. Those things that would cost just 2 developer days are never handled (because the dev org doesn't keep a bench of developers sitting around for these small one-off tasks and thinks in multi-year projects).