This is just how everyone thinks by default. Everyone thinks if you just have the right idea you’ll be successful. “Oh if I’d just come up with Snapchat I’d be a billionaire!” But because the average person doesn’t have the ability to implement an idea at all, they never get proven wrong.
Programmers do have the ability to implement a lot of their ideas, so they learn the hard way that that’s not how it works.
This is just how everyone thinks by default. Everyone thinks if you just have the right idea you’ll be successful. “Oh if I’d just come up with Snapchat I’d be a billionaire!” But because the average person doesn’t have the ability to implement an idea at all, they never get proven wrong.
Programmers do have the ability to implement a lot of their ideas, so they learn the hard way that that’s not how it works.