Here's a little secret: everyone finds programming difficult. Sure, programming itself is easy. But in the real world you can't just program, you need to work a

Here's a little secret: everyone finds programming difficult. Sure, programming itself is easy. But in the real world you can't just program, you need to work as part of a team with people who have definitely, definitely, definitely never read (nor will ever read) Hacker News. Even if you beg them. Even if you pay them 200k/year. And they will write bad, undocumented code that you need to deal with, or worse, they're managers and will penalize you for trying to write good code the first time and promote those who write horrible code quickly (but need to fix it five times, finally getting it right after many months).