A failing with programmers is we tend to focus on solutions rather than problems. Perhaps it's partly because, to be a good programmer, you need to immerse yourself in the code. Unfortunately, this takes your attention away from the bigger problem that the code solves.

In this article, it's interesting that though "Node solves a problem" is stressed as key to its success, compared with the many other JS server-side projects, they don't explicitly mention the problem, except obliquely at the end! (The problem is efficiently handling massive concurrencies in network connections.)

It's because of this short-sightedness of programmers that there will always be easy pickings available to anyone who actually looks at problem. Be a problem-person, not a solution-person.