Most programmers are barely capable Stack Overflow copy'n'paste merchants. Programmers value the hacky over the elegant, and work hard to tight release cycles.

Most programmers are barely capable Stack Overflow copy'n'paste merchants. Programmers value the hacky over the elegant, and work hard to tight release cycles. And yet there are programmers who care, and who seek out and use better ways of doing things, including the tools to help them. Just as there are journalists who care about getting things right, digging up and exposing the truth. In fact, a great way to lift the general standard is to make the right way of doing something also the easy way of doing it: better tools can counteract short deadlines and occasional lapses of discipline.