The fact that we’re having these discussions shows to me how immature our industry still is. Say, people figured out pretty well by now how to design, build, ma

The fact that we’re having these discussions shows to me how immature our industry still is. Say, people figured out pretty well by now how to design, build, maintain and use aircrafts. Not so much spacecrafts, though. Yes, hardware is improving faster than anything, but I wouldn’t say the same about software, unfortunately. I’m still puzzled what CS education does – those graduates seem incapable of doing real coding jobs. And the camps phenomena is a different story all together. As a result, we keep on guessing and experimenting on every project, everywhere. Just imagine the same in the airspace industry (not that they don’t experiment, just in a completely different manner). I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but it seems everything I built or coded wasn’t great: under-engineered, over-engineered, took too long, used wrong platforms, etc. There are certain minimums below which the software is crap, but we never know what they are, and there are no standards that last long enough, as they lack value and have to be rewritten. The big software companies don’t lead, and they are actively opposed by the general industry public; the Open Source community sounds great, but I think that the Every Man for Himself state of the industry is till predominant. So, lots of things to work on and improve – got to sound positive at the end.