> ... tasks like auto-generating documentation, scaffolding schema files, and enforcing naming patterns. The kind of stuff that everyone agrees should be standardized but nobody wants to do by hand

Does everyone agree on this? Or is it another appeal for _some_ form of determinism in our development lives? A desire for tidiness?

I'm fine with that, it brings value, but it requires a very strong architect or a BDUF. That's hard to manage at an organizational level given the prevalence of independent product groups and scrum teams within current engineering organizations.

Everything not done within that tidy world is probably considered debt; but if you're willing and capable to fund the debt, maybe all that lack of determinism isn't too bad.