I work in network security, specifically on the automation team. As we articulate more and more processes, products, monitoring together, new demand is created,

I work in network security, specifically on the automation team. As we articulate more and more processes, products, monitoring together, new demand is created, and our scope grows (unlike our team right now). Being able to automatically write unit tests with minor inputs on my part, creating mocks and sometimes (mostly on front end work or on basic interface) even generating code makes me more 'productive' (not a huge increase but we work with a lot of proprietary stuff), and I'm okay with it. I also use it as a rubber duck under advices from someone on HN and it was a great idea.