It seems like this shouldn't be a hard concept to explain to software devs. We're knowledge workers. The company hires us for our knowledge (knowing how to tell

It seems like this shouldn't be a hard concept to explain to software devs. We're knowledge workers. The company hires us for our knowledge (knowing how to tell a computer what to do) and then retains us mostly for our knowledge (understanding the resulting code), so that when that knowledge is necessary, it doesn't need to be recreated.