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While I agree that there are parts of software engineering that are merely 'tedious' rather than 'hard', there are definitely parts that are legitimately 'hard'
by not_kurt_godel 7y ago
While I agree that there are parts of software engineering that are merely 'tedious' rather than 'hard', there are definitely parts that are legitimately 'hard' too. Just because you've had a particular set of experiences that you've classified as tedious doesn't mean your perspective represents the totality of the industry.
- jcims 7y agoThe problem here is that 'hard' is dimensionless and relative. There are people in Australia right now storming the gates of hell with a shovel and a hose because that's the job they signed up for. If that type of work is on the spectrum, I can't really think of anything in software/systems engineering that's 'hard'.
- codr7 7y agoThat sounds more like courage to me. Many of those shovel and hose carrying people would not make very successful software developers from my experience. It takes a certain kind of mindset; attention to detail and an ability to visualize and work at high levels of abstraction. To do it well, that is. Copy-pasting framework cruft until it sort of works is simply boring and the world would be a better place if we stopped doing that.
- sweeneyrod 7y agoHard as in unpleasant, obviously not. Hard as in mentally challenging, obviously yes.