I think I agree that "boring" shouldn't be used as an excuse to avoid work required to understand the problem. Only when you understand you can determine how it

I think I agree that "boring" shouldn't be used as an excuse to avoid work required to understand the problem. Only when you understand you can determine how it can be automated. I don't think that I agree with the idea that predictable code has to be boring. And vice versa - needless complexity may be boring too. Anyway, I didn't mean it in derogatory way, just like the original article. What I am saying is that there is probably some smart idea, how to automate things, and you just need to look for it. Where automate really means make computer do it. In other professions, it's more complicated. Say building a house may be considered boring, once it is designed, but it's hard to automate - some humans still have to do the actual bricklaying and plumbing and so on. Programming is unique profession in this respect (at least until we have very flexible robots).