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That sound you hear is millions of actual engineers, ones with qualifications/certifications/professional obligations/legal liability (think “civil”, “mechanica
by bigiain 6y ago
That sound you hear is millions of actual engineers, ones with qualifications/certifications/professional obligations/legal liability (think “civil”, “mechanical”, “electrical”, et al.) all rolling their eyes yet again at the code monkeys who call themselves “Engineers”, yet aren’t prepared to tell their boss that the decisions they’re trying to make, with inadequate training and experience, are dangerous...
Do you think the guy signing off on a bridge or power station design gets pushed around by “product managers” demanding shitty or cheapskate design or construction?
- alexbanks 6y agoYou’re welcome to disagree about calling them software engineers, but I’m not seeing how that is relevant or constructive to the whole point of this post and comment chain?
- sokoloff 6y agoThe point GP is making that civil engineers will not (knowingly) design an unsafe product just because they got something in a specification that led them to do so. They’ll object and refuse. You were arguing that the specs or decisions made above their pay grade forced the software engineers into a dangerously faulty design which they dutifully created and shipped.
- wool_gather 6y agoIt's a bit circular, though, isn't it? It is in part due to the fact that a mechanical engineer _has_ that legal certification that they have the standing to meaningfully object, and actually be listened to by their PHB.