Almost half of what we do is not that valuable to our customers, but it's valuable to him, and her, and him, pointing through the conference-room window at my fellow programmers, and that's why we do it. If we only did things that were very valuable to our customers, we wouldn't have nearly as many good engineers on the team as we do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490057#:~:text=Almost%20half%20of,as%20we%20do.