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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by peteforde on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:33PM (#18127246)
I had to Google RPA. Never heard of any of those tools.

What I have heard of - and directly witnessed - is MS Access and MS Excel being used by non-developers to build surprisingly powerful tools to solve their most acute problems.

They often don't even realize that they are programming.

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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by emodendroket on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @09:34AM (#18129995)
Yes, that's true, but there are also plenty of cases of them making mistakes (the amount of money lost per year to mistakes in Excel spreadsheets is something obscene) and getting in way over their heads.
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