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What if coding is that unwanted task? Also, what are the tasks you are referring to, specifically?

Booking visits to the dentist, hairdresser, any other type of service, renewing my phone or internet subscription at the lowest price, doing administrative tasks, adding the free game of the week on Epic Games Store to my library, finding the right houses to visit, etc.

Basically anything that some startup has tried and failed at uberizing.

Why would coding be that unwanted task if one decided to work as a programmer? People's unwanted tasks are cleaning the house, doing taxes etc.

But the value in coding (for the overwhelming majority of the people) is the product of coding (the actual software), not the code itself.

So to most people, the code itself doesn't matter (and never will). It's what it lets them actually do in the real world.

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