The Developer's Code: What Real Programmers Do

by Ka Wai Cheung

once you’ve become an expert in a particular domain, it is nearly impossible to understand what it feels like to not understand that domain.

Most programmers I know don’t even care that much about what it is they build or who they’re building it for. So long as they are solving an interesting problem and so long as there is an opportunity to build something elegantly, they are content.