Every engineer or physicist programmer I've met has been really good at taking math in their domain and converting it to code a compiler can understand, but non

Every engineer or physicist programmer I've met has been really good at taking math in their domain and converting it to code a compiler can understand, but none of them know how to design software or would be capable of writing larger-scale software systems. That's ok. Most of the code they'll be writing will be < 100k lines of code, and you'd be amazed at how much hackery you can survive, especially if you're reasonably smart, at that size of program. Just don't ever ask me or any other competent software engineer to ever have to maintain or extend that system! Let the physicist who wrote it do it.