What takes too much of your time at work that could be automated but isn't?
Follow up question: why haven't you automated it yet?
Why haven't you automated it? Because there exists no good automation that is cheaper than me hiring someone else and paying them more than what I earn.
however! analyzing and understanding codebase enough to decide what to do next... this sounds tempting to dive deeper into.
can i ask what role do you have in your project/company? is it more managerial, or more technical?
Analyzing code isn’t the biggest problem. It’s understanding what’s not in code. Like the customers who depend on a certain behavior. Or why a certain piece of code was added. If it’s still used by some paying tenant.
Or how various services interface with each other via aws services in middle.
The complexity of systems is so much larger than code when they run, and especially when 1000s of users are hitting various code paths and edge cases.