Writing good code is intellectually, unavoidably hard. Writing good code for an ill-specified problem is mathematically, unavoidably impossible.
Code Monkeys live in terror of the day when Monkey Handlers will figure this out and fire them. They shouldn't be: both Monkey Handlers and the industry that backs them will stop at nothing to avoid knowing this. Too many billions of dollars ride on the shared consensual hallucination of mass quantities of sophisticated, reliable code being built fast and cheaply to fulfill badly specified functions.
The whole industry lives in terror of Godel's abyss; what defines a Code Monkey is his/her morbid need to gaze into it.
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