[chipsy]

Not particularly more or less than other fields requiring similar creative adaptivity. If you ask a programmer to do commoditized tasks and punch the clock, then yes. If you ask them to engage themselves at their highest level of intensity and give them the environment and schedule to do so, then you get something very different per person, something potentially worthy and unique but hard to grade on the curve. And as we all know, organizations tend to need more of the former.