I've attempted to build automated news systems in the past and have done so successfully a couple of times. However this is completely misleading as the work is not in publishing but instead is in the actual discovery, curation, and writing of content.<p>I don't know where the joke is from but if there is one about how engineers set up a blog it would go like this.<p><i>Normal person:</i><p>Goes to Medium, Wordpress, or somewhere else, starts writing and clicks publish.<p><i>Developer:</i><p>1. Set up ReactJS for the front end<p>2. Set up a build system for automated deployments<p>3. Sets up MongoDB to store the articles they'll be writing<p>4. Sets up the backend to serve up the various articles<p>5. Builds an integration for Wordpress that enables Wordpress to pull and push (make sure both ways) to the MongoDB system that's storing the newsletters<p>6. Sets up all the integrations required for SEO<p>7. Sets up the integration testing framework<p>8. Write an article<p>9. Clicks publish