Hacker News Reader

Classical programmer fallacy: equating cleverness with value.

There are plenty of level 3 cheesy little Access and VB apps that any "serious" programmer would laugh that that are level 5 or 9 on your scale.

That's true. This should have two axes (at least). One with "domain specific knowledge" and other one with "programming expertise".

Indeed, when domain experts reach some arbitrary level of programming expertise, many good things may happen.