This perception even has a name: Net Negative Producing Programmers[1][2] [1] http://blog.jayfields.com/2009/01/cost-of-net-negative-producing.html http://blog

This perception even has a name: Net Negative Producing Programmers[1][2] [1] http://blog.jayfields.com/2009/01/cost-of-net-negative-producing.html http://blog.jayfields.com/2009/01/cost-of-net-negative-produ... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNPP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNPP