If you want to be paid like an executive, you need to behave like an executive. Programmers that just do what they are told will never be treated like an execut

If you want to be paid like an executive, you need to behave like an executive. Programmers that just do what they are told will never be treated like an executive. Instead of doing duplicate pointless work, tell your superiors what they really want and do that. If you just implement whatever someone else tells you to do, you are a coding monkey, not a programmer. Stop dreaming of 'low wage analysts' that do the dirty work for you, and just do it. Programmers need to take more responsibilities rather than less; after all, who can understand the project better than the programmer who creates it?