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Re:My biggest mistake as an RPA developer by neves on Monday March 21, 2022 @02:42PM (#30758024)
The use of RPA is to allow companies to contract cheaper people to do development job.

Every 10 years or so you will find the industry trying to sell GUI programming tools. Managers will love it. It will sell a lot. Then people will start to see the brittle applications, that it is impossible for 2 people to develop at the same time, that you can't see what changed from 3 versions ago etc.

Then you will have to point your manager to the the 1986 article "No Silver Bullet": https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

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Re:My biggest mistake as an RPA developer by UK-AL on Monday March 21, 2022 @02:49PM (#30758122)
Weirdly though. RPA consultants in professional service firms cost more than devs.
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Re:My biggest mistake as an RPA developer by honey-badger on Monday March 21, 2022 @03:28PM (#30758600)
That is a symptom of hype. In the long run, this will change due to commoditization, as I point out in the article.
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Re:My biggest mistake as an RPA developer by Foobar8568 on Monday March 21, 2022 @03:15PM (#30758450)
Because they add business value....................
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