> (b) If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.[1] Yeah my experience is trad engineer

> (b) If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.[1] Yeah my experience is trad engineers don't believe in nice things, haha. That's the difference. Just look at how moribund hardware is with a lack of open source tools compared to software.