> But if you are a programmer, you can't [demonstrate your skills to laymen]. I don't think it is exactly fair to say so. What a programmer can't do is show of

> But if you are a programmer, you can't [demonstrate your skills to laymen]. I don't think it is exactly fair to say so. What a programmer can't do is show off whenever he wants (like “hey, look, I just refactored this whole project and now is does the exact same thing as it used to do”). This is more a problem of context: sometimes, people will be faced with problem, or won't be able to understand something; at this moment, you can demonstrate what you can have a computer do for you or how well you understand it. But the point is that some people have less opportunities to show off, I have to agree with the fact that programmers are some of them. However, there are not alone (think mathematicians or accountant for instance).