I think you're being unnecessarily harsh. I get your point about OP presenting problems, not solutions, but on the other hand, they are a programmer & they are

I think you're being unnecessarily harsh. I get your point about OP presenting problems, not solutions, but on the other hand, they are a programmer & they are clearly trying to automate the repetitive parts of the job. Isn't that basically the essence of programming: what good programmers should be doing is automating as much of their job as possible.