Exactly. The reason we aren't all sitting around hand-writing assembler is that programmers look at tedious processes and find higher-level abstractions that al

Exactly. The reason we aren't all sitting around hand-writing assembler is that programmers look at tedious processes and find higher-level abstractions that allow us to do more work in less time. Once we spot a tedious common pattern, we should be finding ways to DRY it up. Configs, libraries, frameworks, DSL, tools, and languages are all great ways to do that. Copy-pasting and machine-generating code are short-term thinking in two ways: they focus on the initial creation of the code at the expense of maintenance, and they give up on increasing abstraction, lock the system into a productivity plateau.