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I don't blame the guy, most software dev (most web dev, anyway) is just white collar plumbing. Fixing broken shit pipes gets old

• acwan93 5y ago
  Much like plumbers where clients don't understand the issue and yell at you for "excessive billing" or asking for discounts.
  • dcow 5y ago
    People always look at me weird when I call software dev digital plumbing. Then they come back the next day and say, “actually I was thinking about it and you’re totally right!…”.
    • dqpb 5y ago
      It depends on the scale though right? Plumbing a city has different problems than plumbing a bathroom.
      • dcow 5y ago
        Plumbing isn’t meant to be a reduction. You’re still solving problems. But at the end of the day the data must flow.
        • dqpb 5y ago
          But the complexity of the network can result in emergent properties that are at a different layer of abstraction than fitting pipes together.
    • Jensson 5y ago
      Software engineer can be similar to plumbing, an maybe for most jobs it is. But it can be so many other things as well. Writing a game isn't much like that at all for example.
      • dcow 5y ago
        Depends on what part of the game you’re working on, I imagine. Building a game (or any software product) is probably more like building a house. You need architects and designers and painters and carpenters and masons and electricians and plumbers. If you do frontend stuff you’re more like a mason or carpenter. Backend more like electrician and plumbing. Systems design -> architect. Interaction/UX design -> designer.