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I'm a software engineer by day, software craftsman by night. My own personal work is made with love and care but I won't necessarily fret over details like ext
by conradludgate 5y ago
I'm a software engineer by day, software craftsman by night.
My own personal work is made with love and care but I won't necessarily fret over details like extreme testing, scalability, readability of the code.
My paid work is a lot more thorough. Meetings and planning. Group work. Testing. My work does have consequences (although I think that's not really a prerequisite for the title of engineering). While no official board has standards of software. My work definitely has standards. My peers and managers have standards that we enforce upon ourselves
- conradludgate 5y agoI think there's one key term that hasn't been mentioned in relation to this debate much: accountability. Engineers are a countable for their work. I am accountable if my code fucks up in production. An engineer is accountable if a foundation fails. Not "how bad are the consequences", but "am I accountable if something does goes wrong"