Let me rephrase, programming is easy, software engineering is hard. Scripting Word or your editor of choice is not particularly hard, writing a python script t

Let me rephrase, programming is easy, software engineering is hard. Scripting Word or your editor of choice is not particularly hard, writing a python script to read a csv and output some text is relatively easy. Designing and implementing a large scale Web application with metric collection, real time reporting, multitude of data integrations, aggressive availability requirements and worked on by 10s of engineers across a number of teams is hard, real hard.