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This is an especially good analogy when you look at mass home builders and buyers' frequent complaints about shoddy materials and workmanship, e.g. https://old.

This is an especially good analogy when you look at mass home builders and buyers' frequent complaints about shoddy materials and workmanship, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/RoundRock/comments/ae8p5c/what_is_your_experience_with_kb_homes_and_other/ https://old.reddit.com/r/RoundRock/comments/ae8p5c/what_is_y...

deltaonefour 5y ago
Anaolgies are deceptive. They don't prove anything but they lead you to perceive something to be more real even though no argument was made for proof. So houses are made from shoddy workmanship. Software is also made with shoddy workmanship. How does this analogy prove that software engineering is not the easiest engineering field out there? I would argue that it proves software engineering IS the easiest engineering field out there because you can get away with this shoddy workmanship. In fact the engineering process of software engineering are centered around shoddy workmanship and throwing in and developing features without any sort of plan. See agile for more info on this process.
- ericbarrett 5y ago
  I used agile before it was cool, back when it was a website and some rebel engineers frustrated at 6-month point patch cycles. In those days everything was a skyscraper, even getting MS Word installed on your company desktop. I hate what it's become and you're preaching to the choir. But some big projects do take real engineering, and coordination, and careful weighing of options before moving forward.
  - deltaonefour 5y ago
    I've worked on these projects, they still exist but are rare. You'll find most of these projects are in high end defense or other embedded systems projects that are highly, highly connected with building hardware. Outside of this kind of stuff, software engineering is easier than most other forms of engineering due to an accepted lower bar of quality.

deltaonefour 5y ago

Anaolgies are deceptive. They don't prove anything but they lead you to perceive something to be more real even though no argument was made for proof. So houses are made from shoddy workmanship. Software is also made with shoddy workmanship. How does this analogy prove that software engineering is not the easiest engineering field out there? I would argue that it proves software engineering IS the easiest engineering field out there because you can get away with this shoddy workmanship. In fact the engineering process of software engineering are centered around shoddy workmanship and throwing in and developing features without any sort of plan. See agile for more info on this process.

ericbarrett 5y ago
I used agile before it was cool, back when it was a website and some rebel engineers frustrated at 6-month point patch cycles. In those days everything was a skyscraper, even getting MS Word installed on your company desktop. I hate what it's become and you're preaching to the choir. But some big projects do take real engineering, and coordination, and careful weighing of options before moving forward.
- deltaonefour 5y ago
  I've worked on these projects, they still exist but are rare. You'll find most of these projects are in high end defense or other embedded systems projects that are highly, highly connected with building hardware. Outside of this kind of stuff, software engineering is easier than most other forms of engineering due to an accepted lower bar of quality.