[commandlinefan]

> The problems around maintaining unfamiliar code are huge, largely unsolved, expensive and risky

Not to mention massively underestimated and unappreciated by non-programmers.

[samsquire]

A software engineer, coder and developer's responsibility is to manage technical complexity and solve technical, data or business problems.

I'm not sure if we are respected for this capability. Do people want to pay for what they do not understand why it is so hard?