I think the author misses the point of their own story, this isn't an software vs regular engineer thing, this is a problems with monotonous static jobs. His f

I think the author misses the point of their own story, this isn't an software vs regular engineer thing, this is a problems with monotonous static jobs. His friends job is to fit one small body panel on the chassis, over and over again. So when he gets one that doesn't fit his instinct is to make it fit as opposed to asking why it doesn't. His job isn't questions, his job is to fit it on. When he was working in his own body shop this hacker wouldn't have stood for his tools putting out misprints and mistakes, but then his job was managing the whole shop. Static monotony gets static monotonous thinking.