my experience has been the opposite. Whenever an actual operator tells me about a process that they'd like automated, 95% of the time that's code that should be written. If some dude vibe coded a thing that pulls reports from an internal database, but has certain things he can't seem to get right, that's a perfect project.

As a "Engineer", working on internal tools and infrastructure, it's your job to make the operators life's easier and more effective, not the other way around.