alt Hacker NewsThen it fails and the world doesn't end. You fix it or delegate it and move on. Most people aren't working on code for power grids and fighter jets. There's room for failure. This same argument was used by the old timers when younger programmers couldn't code assembly or C on bare metal systems.
In the context of "fun again", debugging slop, finding imaginary dependencies, and discovering unimaginably fragile code isn't fun, even if it's not important.
But past bad output, I worry for our creative fulfillment. The old timers are right. That feeling of accomplishment, a keystone of happiness is a product of work. Probably beyond the scope of the thread.