This happens at several levels. Smartphone-controlled candles are a great example. Personally, what I find sad is that while many of the best programmers in the

This happens at several levels. Smartphone-controlled candles are a great example. Personally, what I find sad is that while many of the best programmers in the world are busy writing the next blogging framework or javascript UI library, scientific software that can make a great impact in our lives (and is a huge challenge even for the most experienced developer) is being written by PhD students with zero experience in programming. But I do not think the experienced developers or the inexperienced students are to blame here. To be honest, I do not know who would be.