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You have cowboy builders in the "engineering" area too. For some reason in software we seem to be more accepting of it.
by radicalbyte 7y ago
You have cowboy builders in the "engineering" area too. For some reason in software we seem to be more accepting of it.
- cameronbrown 7y agoFor most non-engineers (either kind), engineering is just a means to an end, i.e. don't care about the finer details as long as it works. When software goes wrong, the effects are more often than not, intangible. When mechanical engineering or electrical engineering goes wrong, people can die. Software can obviously kill people too, it just happens less. Then industry practices revert to the mean due to cost cutting.