I work as a programmer. I'm not very good. But then hardly anyone is. There are certainly exceptions, but I think as a whole we're still working everything out

I work as a programmer. I'm not very good. But then hardly anyone is. There are certainly exceptions, but I think as a whole we're still working everything out. And that's why it's so fast moving, we can easily find better ways of working each decade because last decade's status quo left so much to be desired. If you find avoiding unemployment as a programmer easy, then I would suggest that you are what people want. Maybe you don't write the fastest code, maybe there are bugs, but it seems our customers (employers) are quite happy with that, and perhaps don't want the tradeoffs that would come if we were to ever seriously attempt to produce a zero bug project. (I speak to/of the vast majority of programmers, there are areas where one can not compromise on program correctness but they are rare.)