Reading throught the comments, it's amazing to see how much damage the cowboy culture of our community has produced. "Every engineer should be an architect." Ha, ha, ha...
This also goes hand-in-hand with "Everyone can be a programmer" mantra that everyone likes to repeat. Go teach pointers to 20-year olds and you'll realize how most people can't be programmers.
I don't understand where this culture is coming from. I definitely can't fix my car; when I see my mechanic, he doesn't tell me how I should go learn how to fix my car. I'm confident he's much better at fixing my car than I am. The same is true with other professions -- lawyers don't tell clients to go interpret laws on their own and dentists don't tell people to go remove teeth on their own. What is it about our community that we ingrained into our youth that "writing code" is the thing that everybody must do?
This also goes hand-in-hand with "Everyone can be a programmer" mantra that everyone likes to repeat. Go teach pointers to 20-year olds and you'll realize how most people can't be programmers.
I don't understand where this culture is coming from. I definitely can't fix my car; when I see my mechanic, he doesn't tell me how I should go learn how to fix my car. I'm confident he's much better at fixing my car than I am. The same is true with other professions -- lawyers don't tell clients to go interpret laws on their own and dentists don't tell people to go remove teeth on their own. What is it about our community that we ingrained into our youth that "writing code" is the thing that everybody must do?