Whenever I hear this argument, I think of those guys out there on the freeway laying asphalt in the middle of the night. Or those people who are dead - inside the dam's cement. They probably wish they didn't have to use tools or try new techniques or combine skills and continue to learn new ways of building complex structures. They probably wish things didn't go wrong. They probably wish there was a task manager that just put all the dirt into the wheelbarrow and rolled it where it needed to go. As we move to a computer-based way of building things, it seems that we have already become spoiled and self-deserving. It seems like most 'developers' took a "rails for zombies" tutorial and are angry that things aren't as easy as that. That's why front-end developers get paid 4 times a much as most people / to make crappy software for other developers to track their time or catalog their toys or rants with their friends about how much they hate programming. I think everyone who doesn't like writing code, should get a job on a contractor's team for a summer - if they'll have you. Then while you are thinking about how much that job sucks, dream up a new box-model CSS type thing and be the hero.