Yeah, it's really useful to be able to automate tasks, especially when you're the intern that gets handed the boring task the higher ups don't want to do. An in

Yeah, it's really useful to be able to automate tasks, especially when you're the intern that gets handed the boring task the higher ups don't want to do. An intern's job is basically to do the lowest level tasks that computers can't do. And yeah, sometimes (ok a bunch of times) your superiors have no idea how simple that task is on a computer. However, other times the task is just complex enough and happening rarely enough and your skills are not good enough to justify an automation scenario. Then it's really boring. I would say learn programming to raise your complexity bar on repetitive tasks.