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> A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth. Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any sof
by blinds 6y ago
> A dentist gets to try on fake tooth before drilling a real tooth.
Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any software engineering? Sounds unusual for practitioners of an industry endowed with such a critical responsibility.
A dentist can easily kill someone through malpractice... There's no code review, there's no test environment, and there are always difficult (often time-sensitive) decisions to make and difficult people to deal with.
If all you know is estimating story points and merging pull requests to make your burn-down chart look pretty you probably shouldn't be so confident that your profession is more difficult or more superior than one that you have no understanding of.
- user5994461 6y agoA software engineer can easily kill tens of people with a typo. Medical devices have a ton of software and it's only increasing. Medical staff have the equivalent of code review and test environments. Non-routine operations have always multiple people in the room. They have bodies to practice on. Do yourself a favour and drop the attitude. Medical and software industries both have some very difficult jobs.