I wish it was even 10% true. There's still so many mundane tasks in software engineering that I need to waste time on doing manually... I regularly waste significant amount of time on setting up deployments, configuring logging, monitoring and alerting, organizing data for tests, and a myriad of other mundane non-creative tasks that take time from real fun job - like designing and implementing new algorithms, functionality, features, etc. Most of these not only not automated to a significant degree - they are small and varied enough that automating them wouldn't probably even be possible without spending inordinate amount of time. Those rare happy circumstances where it is scriptable, it gets scripted and it's a huge help, but never in my multi-decade career as software developer I ever wondered if what I do can be done by a script. I'd be happy if even 1% of it could be - I'd have 1% more time for the fun stuff - but we not even there yet.
