I'm not a software developer. But my economist guess is: a developer's job is to map vague, not-entirely-defined conceptions into program specification. Why don

I'm not a software developer. But my economist guess is: a developer's job is to map vague, not-entirely-defined conceptions into program specification. Why don't people just learn programming? Because they're busy and they hire nannies to take care of their children too, but also because they need a bridge from business logic to software engineering logic. Actual code-monkey work is easy to find online on Fiverr, Rentacoder or Odesk.