Software development is indeed not "engineering or science"; But that doesn't mean it has to be "craft" or other highly subjective fields, nor that we can't ai

Software development is indeed not "engineering or science"; But that doesn't mean it has to be "craft" or other highly subjective fields, nor that we can't aim for similar standards as other engineering disciplines. > Writing code is more like being a blacksmith than being a scientist ... a lot of software development is fundamentally subjective. But writing code is more like engineering than science, so why not compare those? There is subjectivity to engineering design too, but plenty objectivity in the constraints - what make something "fundamentally" subjective versus some other kind of subjective? Is it possible we don't need to compare programming to any other profession? We can instead identify there is subjectivity in software development, and that some (but maybe not all) it it could be more objective for a benefit.