Why? Because most programmers are lazy, arrogant, self-serving children. Given the choice between learning the business – requiring lots of talking to users to

Why? Because most programmers are lazy, arrogant, self-serving children. Given the choice between learning the business – requiring lots of talking to users to understand what they do and why they do it, and then writing very plain uninteresting code that servers those business users’ needs – or learning whizzy new CV-enhancing technologies and using them to invent excitingly complicated and interesting software problems so they can spend all their time solving those problem instead, which do you think the indolent bums are going to embrace?