What is the niche?

I do control systems that have to work first try and after running the plant through its paces I’m out the door never to return

The only time I ever wrote a program on paper was when I was 10 years old, a few months before my 11th birthday when I got my first computer. And that was in the late 1970s.

But why do you use computers at all? Isn’t it intellectually dishonest?

For communication and processing information quickly with determinism?

They aren't the best solution for everything. Thinking is one of those things.