[jplayer01]

I think this is one of the benefits of being a programmer. Our tools and materials can be easily stored in an online-accessible way, such that a git clone can recreate your entire environment and all the code you were working on. I don't know if any non-programmers who primarily rely on their laptops do (or can do) the same, much less people who work with music or videos or photos, who often have (hundreds of) gigabytes they need to work on with no real version control, and require much more effort and financial investment to be able to backup, duplicate and restore.

[StavrosK]

Yeah, it's interesting how, when your job is making things, you manage to make things to make making other things easier, so your ability improves exponentially.

Musicians make music, so they have to rely on other people making tools for them, whereas toolmakers can just make better tools for themselves.

That is, if you can avoid reinventing the wheel, which we aren't great at.