You missed my point. Of course there are subjective qualities to code. That's irrelevant to my point. Which was that a stockbroker is a bad analogy because he

You missed my point. Of course there are subjective qualities to code. That's irrelevant to my point. Which was that a stockbroker is a bad analogy because he can be 10x better than he was in his 20's and bad luck can negate all his skill and effort. That doesn't happen with programming. There's not that luck factor. Even to the subjective aspects.