[perl4ever]

Programmers inherently know that doing anything requires a lot of detailed knowledge, because working out how to express it explicitly is their job.

But decent programmers get a lot of reinforcement of the idea that they are entitled to be spoon fed with the details of whatever needs to be worked on. They get treated as machines that can be pointed at any problem in any domain.

I know intuitively why this attitude of entitlement bothers people, but I don't have the right words at the moment.