Comment by int_19h
6 days ago
It's interesting that you bring up accounting software as an example. In jurisdictions where legal requirements around it are a lot more specific than in e.g. US, accounting suites usually already come with a lot of customization hooks (up to and including full-fledged scripting DSLs), and there are software engineers and companies who specialize in using those to implement bespoke accounting requirements.
I admit I have no specific knowledge of accounting and just meant to reference any random department that isn't engineering.
(Though I think it's true of engineering too. We all have our own weird team-specific processes for code reviews and CI and deployments which could probably use better automation.)
But even where lots of customization exists today (such as in engineering!), more is always possible. It's always just a question of whether the automation saves as much time as it took to build. If the automations can be built faster, then it makes sense to build more of them.