I'm not sure you're qualified to be commenting on this. Physicists, electrical engineers, and electricians all do discovery, but not all of them, and when they

I'm not sure you're qualified to be commenting on this. Physicists, electrical engineers, and electricians all do discovery, but not all of them, and when they do, in different capacities. There's definitely a lot of ways that physicists and scientists in general don't make good engineers. But a physicist has a good shot at being a reasonable engineer, after getting over the fact that they don't actually know everything and rules of thumb and physical models have to be created taking into account the complex emergent behavior we see in reality. Same thing for CS PhDs and software engineering. They should be set up to undertake these things well. Not being able to do so is a mark against them. They don't immediately understand the complex emergent behavior of modern computer systems but neither has any SWE.