It's the "knows enough to be dangerous" problem. It applies to a lot of professions. We see it applied to the legal profession all the time here on HN. No la

It's the "knows enough to be dangerous" problem. It applies to a lot of professions. We see it applied to the legal profession all the time here on HN. No lawyer likes to find out that the Accounting Dept. has been drafting contracts, any more than an IT person likes to discover that the CPAs have developed a pseudo-enterprise accounting "system" in Microsoft Access. But I think there is a middle ground: It's not practical to consult a lawyer for every click-through agreement you encounter on the web, just like it's not practical to launch an enterprise IT project every time you need to automate some tasks in a spreadsheet. Some basic skills in these areas are good to have. Just know your limits...