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> Except that isn’t what software engineers largely do, we aren’t building the nth copy of the same building with a slightly different skin. That’s exactly wha
by austincheney 5y ago
> Except that isn’t what software engineers largely do, we aren’t building the nth copy of the same building with a slightly different skin.
That’s exactly what most developers do.
There is far greater variation in boring bridges spanning small streams than most web applications and yet after more than 20 years we still can’t figure it out without some giant framework to do most of it for us.
- jgeada 5y agoCost of replicating software is near zero, if you want the same thing as the next guy you can have it right now, no schedule risk. Except that isn’t what they want, they want the same “except for this, and with this extra, and change that…”. And we are back at the discover the spec stage again
- austincheney 5y agoYou are overstating requirements gathering and then somehow confusing that for building anything technical. This only exemplifies the incompetence. Bridge building is only more predictable because it’s more expensive. The same planning problems are still there but are worked out well in advance by people who aren’t so easily confused.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoWe know mate, you are preaching to the quer. His point is you cannot exactly replicate a bridge either even if you've got an identical one 300 meters away - the river twists and turns, soil conditions differ, foundations may be different, etc. You never get to 'copy-paste' anything more conplicated than a shed ir a single-story house