And you are right about not believing on all of those bots that can be bought, using a bot only makes sense if a trader is profitable already and they can code, as in this way they can trade the markets every single minute of every day and not miss a single movement because they were sleeping or they got distracted.
However for some reason many people out there hold the idea that someone else is going to give up on years of research and trial and error and sell their knowledge for peanuts.
Programming these days starts slowly to become a common knowledge. Most of the people I encountered even non techy almost are at least familiar with simple syntaxes since it is almost like close to math knowledge that you learn in high school.
At the most basic level coding is not very complex at all as the current coding languages use structures anyone can understand after a brief explanation, however once you begin to go deeper coding becomes a specialized skill only those in the known can understand.
Also coding requires logical thinking and the ability to convert a big problem into many smaller ones, and this is an ability very few people have naturally and it has to be developed through training.
Yeah, it's like just reading an English textbook when you learn the first few syntaxes (if, else if, else, while loops), but it gets harder when you get to principles and that's where complexity goes. Principles like OOP are kinda mindfucks when you get into its structure (inheritance, interfaces etc)
And yeah, it's not just logical thinking. When you code, you're not just coding but you are also solving problems well at least that's what I see to most of software engineers/developers.
It can process a large amount of data to meet the standards you set, but you still need to check it regularly because there is always the possibility of the bot encountering errors
Bots are prone to errors still. Remember when you can do the "pretend to be my deceased grandma" in ChatGPT? Not sure if it is still working these days as I never really used ChatGPT that much in my software dev work, but they were able to generate keys for various software like the usual operating system, Windows. Bots are still like an ongoing project and would continue to be just like any other software out there in the market. Bugs aren't going away by themselves.