An interesting perspective on why this guy thinks good programmers are lazy and dumb.

I will easily admit I’m a lazy programmer– I will take the time to write a tool to automate a task or create for myself rather than have to repeat a given task. This especially is true when I have to muck around with any sort of text reformatting or processing. I dig out the Regular Expressions book and/or write a macro in UltraEdit so I’m not stuck extracting or de-crapifying something by hand.