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It always scares me that civil engineers and other real engineers (with professional engineer certificates) rely on software built by software "engineers" who m
by fma 8y ago
It always scares me that civil engineers and other real engineers (with professional engineer certificates) rely on software built by software "engineers" who may just be some kids out of high school that picked up coding.
It's an extreme scenario, yes, as I'm sure/hope the software goes through rigorous testing.
- paulie_a 8y agoWhen I was growing up I lived in a small town and the city planner had mocked the entire town in the original SimCity. The ongoing joke was that he would test any proposals in that.
- mcguire 8y agoBetter than most, I guess.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAt least you had a city planner. The city I grew up in is a larger one, and currently seems to be entirely in the hands of private developers - who just dump closed-off groups of blocks at random throughout the city, hoping to sell the apartments, without any consideration to things like neighborhood, surrounding architecture or road throughput.