>to make a screen display some text and pictures. But it's fancy text. It requires codes. This rhetoric vastly understates why businesses hire developers: ther

>to make a screen display some text and pictures. But it's fancy text. It requires codes. This rhetoric vastly understates why businesses hire developers: there is far more than displaying text and pictures. Consider Hacker News. The system involves user account creation, security, and the ability to reset passwords. There is a voting system and an input system to record comments. You need to run backups and set up auto-moderation features. There is spam detection. There is the need for performance and fast loading speeds. The software needs to be maintained over time. The website must be responsive, and adapt to different display sizes (e.g. laptop display versus smartphone). The website should run across different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) and on various devices. The website should follow accessibility standards. There are strong reasons to believe that there are other causes than "mass psychosis" for competently-led organizations to want to hire web developers.