> Just because people can do the basic level of something [...] doesn't mean the field is easy or useless. Actually, the shovel analogy is quite accurate after

> Just because people can do the basic level of something [...] doesn't mean the field is easy or useless. Actually, the shovel analogy is quite accurate after tweaking a little. "Just because people can do the basic level of digging holes in ground doesn't mean the field is easy or useless". Operating an overgrown shovel called "excavator" is not an easy task and requires plenty of training to do it well, yet it's but a tool. And we would still need all the knowledge from civil engineering (totally separate field, though "engineering", not "science") to make any substantially larger or deeper hole in the ground. All this doesn't make digging holes useful on its own. It helps to sometimes look from this angle at programming and computer science.