I've felt the same way for a long time. At length I've finally decided that the fear comes from simply having been burned one too many times by that "one-shot s

I've felt the same way for a long time. At length I've finally decided that the fear comes from simply having been burned one too many times by that "one-shot script" that I was forced to "just hack quickly" becoming the freaking cornerstone of some business process and then weighing me down like a millstone around my neck for years afterwards. I still get calls from a company I worked at more than a decade ago from people I've never even heard of over something I "just hacked together" one idle weekend as a demonstration of what was possible. Of course, its been hacked and bodged by others for a decade now so I don't know any more than they do at this point. It doesn't matter. My number is company lore and I'm their Gandalf. Its just not worth it. These days, I do it well, or not at all.