The paperwork is the code review, the test results, the QA approval, the verification against requirements, the approval to merge, and so on.

The paperwork has moved into a digital format, but it's still there.

If you're a consultant there is still a degree of paperwork to do. Documenting the approach, the work itself, the handover, the install and troubleshooting.

If you're in big business or government then there is still paperwork. These are political organisations and even doing a good job isn't satisfactory, in many cases I'd argue that appearing to do a good job on paper is what your task really is and any delivery of a working piece of code is second to it.