If your work really is so simple that all of it can be automated then it initially sounds like a golden deal: the employer is getting what they're paying for an

If your work really is so simple that all of it can be automated then it initially sounds like a golden deal: the employer is getting what they're paying for and the employee has a lot of... free time. But the trouble is that most decent programmers just couldn't stand that. They absolutely need to feel they're doing useful work. So they'll either expand their duties in the company (likely with no similar expansion in their pay) or leave for another company (that pays them to do the both challenging and useful work). Another case are companies where you absolutely need to automate lots of stuff to get to do real work. If you fight the system you'll run out of energy sooner than the system ever would, but if you automate the fight you can stay operative yourself.