I used to work in ETL sometime back on a popular tool daily. It used to take a LOT of time for doing code reviews. 30min per object. Decent project has 300 su

I used to work in ETL sometime back on a popular tool daily. It used to take a LOT of time for doing code reviews. 30min per object. Decent project has 300 such objects. Turns out the tool can export in XML so I wrote a Python script to do the review. What happened? I could review basic manual things like coding standards in 15milli seconds irrespective of the object number. That's automation. It is usable in other projects , and nobody other than my team used it ever for review. Why? Because it requires efforts to understand & a basic understanding of XML &Python and they don't have it because it's not their field. I am a nerd so I kept exploring. So the script is now ancient history. And coming to my point. These people say automation is demise of everything. AI is taking over all jobs. Won't happen for a long time. For starters, scientists in the cold war had said "We will have live voice translate from Russian to English in 5yrs" Cold war has ended for how many years now? And in 2010s MS finally was able to bring this tech. Imagine the time gap. secondly, if such an 'automation' thing is sold by a company, then who will create & sell it? And will that firm have 1000000000 of such small scripts for automation? Highly unlikely. Whatever automation I did in past five years was something that relieved my work load. It is highly unlikely that such automation packages will be bought by companies and the much harder thing is for automation companies to sell such tools. Companies like mine have spent millions to buy that tool, will they really spend more money on buying a bunch of automation tools? Note that the core aspect of the tool's usage can't be automated . You still need a living thinking human being to use it, and make objects using the non existing requirement documents. Scripts need 100% perfect everything which is not possible in real life