My point wasn't that there are no incompetent programmers. There are plenty. My point was that in our profession, and it is a profession, it is much more diff

My point wasn't that there are no incompetent programmers. There are plenty. My point was that in our profession, and it is a profession, it is much more difficult to be incompetent. As a consequence, there are fewer incompetents than in other professions. In regulated professions, once you get through the door and get certified/licensed/whatever you can then use that as a badge of competency to get work. You can't do that with software development. Nobody cares what certification or degree you have. They want to know if you can code. How wonderful is that?