While that's definitely true, people were building bridges for thousands of years before formal engineering was a thing. Of course some number of people probab

While that's definitely true, people were building bridges for thousands of years before formal engineering was a thing. Of course some number of people probably died crossing those, and Golden Gate scale bridges weren't built. Just to torture your analogy, maybe it depends on the scale and weight requirements of the software as to exactly how much fundamentals will be required. Sometimes all that is needed is to lay a 2x4 across a mud puddle and that's fine. It's also how a lot of people get started.