alt Hacker NewsThis isn’t a skill exclusive to software developers though - there are a lot of domain experts who can identify these opportunities as well. Not a majority perhaps - it seems like 15-20% at my company - but more will develop this skill by working with AI.
If they can reason about software engineering enough to be able to successfully develop software, then they are software developers. (I’ve yet to see a person who can say “we can automate this!” without actually thinking like a programmer and yet reliably be correct about that.)