> This is a huge area in enterprises right now... Yeah, and I'll be honest I didn't see this coming...Or at least, i didn't see the enterprise popularity aspec

> This is a huge area in enterprises right now... Yeah, and I'll be honest I didn't see this coming...Or at least, i didn't see the enterprise popularity aspect coming...Sort of because I kind of thought automation of this type was a solved thing. But i guess not. For most of my career, I've worked in web and/or digital marketing roles...so automation stuff was most often taken care on the server side via bash scripts, etc. And for desktop stuff, I assumed those who needed it, simply set up desktop automation via Applescript for macs, windows task scheduler for windows, macros specifically for excel, and of course the classic bash scripts for linux...So, color me surprised when I recently heard so much buzz around this weirdo "RPA" (robot process automation) stuff. Honestly, half of it seems somewhat reasonable. For the other half, i think this is just a bunch of IT consultants, platform developers/vendors, etc. colluding to get tons of enterprise money to create or expand an industry to capitalize on the perceptions that humans "should" be automated away. I feel uneasy learning this stuff for my dayjob, knowing the long-term effects might negatively impact someone's livelihood. I know there are orgs. out there who would give their idle humans more creative/fullfilling work out there...But i also know some orgs. who care less, and simply slash humans from their ranks chasing the almighty dollar regardless of the human cost. I guess the only upside is that this appears to be an open source software, so i guess that's good. <sigh>