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Engineering would be how you test it, how you document it, how you maintain it, how you deploy it. Implementing other peoples algorithms is just programming/cod
by rfd4sgmk8u 5y ago
Engineering would be how you test it, how you document it, how you maintain it, how you deploy it. Implementing other peoples algorithms is just programming/coding.
- sennight 5y agoThe problem with that redefinition is that you spontaneously transform into an engineer when working on your own personal library, but as soon as you pull in a single dependency, or manually punch in some old school approximation algorithm, you are "just" some dirty good for nothing code janitor. Imagine somebody tasked with designing a bridge abandoning their engineering mindset because they used somebody else's drafting table. Also, that engineer better be "just" implementing other peoples algorithms on that bridge design - I'm not interested in driving across some 10Xer's suspension bridge.