Not disagreeing with anything you say.. But you can make things that satisfies you, and doesn't require external validation/utility. Have an example: About 8 y

Not disagreeing with anything you say.. But you can make things that satisfies you, and doesn't require external validation/utility. Have an example: About 8 years ago I was told two oracle dbs were behaving differently, despite "containing the same data and code" I'm a biochemist, I can't code for shit, but fuelled by the logic that "there must be a difference" and google, I knocked out a block of PL/SQL that would generate hashes on schema, data, and packages. At the time I just ran it against the two schemas, it showed me two tables were different and boom problem solved. Over the subsequent years I've bumped into people with a problem that maybe my script could help debug - but the pride I felt each time was incredible. It's maybe fixed three issues, but something I did right so many years ago still being useful today, feels great.