Writing code is such a small part of our jobs anyway. If it were everything, our jobs would be easy. Most of my time is actually spent answering these question

Writing code is such a small part of our jobs anyway. If it were everything, our jobs would be easy. Most of my time is actually spent answering these questions: * Why isn't this working? * How could the user fuck this up? * How could another programmer fuck this up? * What do I want this thing to do? * What's the best/fastest/safest way to do it? No amount of abstraction will ever fully eradicate these questions while leaving a sufficiently general framework to work in - they characterise programming. And they are by no means "stupid".