I'm pretty sure you may be right. I'm also worried that what youve just described is the kind of task that leads to burnout in large doses. And I'm not sure humans are so great at it either.

I had one job that involved a small amount of coding and mainly hooking together opaque systems. The people behind those systems were unresponsive and often surly. I had to deal with misleading docs, vague docs, subtle, buried bugs that people would routinely blame on each other or me and I was constantly on a knife edge a balancing political problems (e.g. dont make people look stupid in front of their superiors, dont look or sound unprepared) with technical concerns.

It was horrible. I burned out faster than a match.

I'm sure ChatGPT couldnt do that job but I'm not sure I could either.

If most tech jobs turn into that while the fun, creative stuff is automated by ChatGPT... that would be tragic.