Right, imagine say a civil engineer building a bridge saying 'I won't bother working out the actual stresses on the trusses, I'll just estimate them from an ear

Right, imagine say a civil engineer building a bridge saying 'I won't bother working out the actual stresses on the trusses, I'll just estimate them from an earlier job' because it's boring--unfortunately much of good engineering is very tedious and boring, the hard slog comes with the territory. BTW, the reason I said I'd likely not live to see software development become a profession is because the same sentiments as this blog were echoed in this Scientific American article some 27 years ago and precious little has changed for the better since then: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247573088_Software's_Chronic_Crisis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247573088_Software'... I think the italicized heading on page 87 sums the matter up beautifully.