Computer Science is much more a set of guilds than a research institute. Every nook of field is filled with with informal, tribal knowledge transfer. At the edges of programming there are highly skilled academics churning out intricate reams of technical specifications and reasoning about abstract concepts — this is not day to day programming. The very grand majority of code is written by folks in the trenches, with their own shop-talk, division of labor hierarchies, and repetitive trial and error refinement, building the muscle memory every skilled laborer earns with tenacious patience. Code is not perfectly analogous to welding, or whatever physical labor skill you want but it’s way more similar than it seems, even at the self-driving car level, I guarantee. If you’re like Vasily and you talk down to entry-level programmers , you’re probably just insecure that todays “specialist” profession will turn into tomorrows commodity labor by simple virtue of warm under-employed blue-collar bodies “at scale”.