I'll weight in from a slightly different angle: I consider my job as a coder to be 90% bullshit. I call it plumbing. Inject that data stream into these input, b

I'll weight in from a slightly different angle: I consider my job as a coder to be 90% bullshit. I call it plumbing. Inject that data stream into these input, buffer this, convert that, cache that shit. Launch a thread to do that in parallel, manage a thread pool, poll that stuff, convert that data format into that other, I could go on for pages. My real job is in the 10% remaining: understanding the problem, producing an algorithm or an architecture, optimizing things in a way that require a deep understanding of the data, designing the UI the users really need. I'd gladly automate the plumbing in order to do 80% of interesting stuff instead of 20%.