Humans generally have a way to look for patterns of repeated effort that could be automated, and then proceed to automate them one way or the other. It has not

Humans generally have a way to look for patterns of repeated effort that could be automated, and then proceed to automate them one way or the other. It has nothing to with programming. We are trained through evolution to conserve resources as much as we possibly can. The guy who invented the wheel was the first programmer.