You don't need to be good to program. You need to be exceptional to do math. Most programmers aren't that good at what they do, and I think they should focus on

You don't need to be good to program. You need to be exceptional to do math. Most programmers aren't that good at what they do, and I think they should focus on their craft. I struggle to explain to my colleagues who make 100k that they need to do memory tiling: or that their loop doesn't vectorized. Changing a float from a double in a BFGS is 2 days of work for these people. Let the chosen few do math.