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> Most of my labor has gone to waste. More projects than not never ultimately shipped Same here and I've been in the biz for ~35 years. An architect can drive

> Most of my labor has gone to waste. More projects than not never ultimately shipped Same here and I've been in the biz for ~35 years. An architect can drive around a city and point to buildings he designed. It's a bit disillusioning to think that the vast majority of the work I've done has just sort of disappeared because either a startup didn't make it or got swallowed up into a larger organization that had other plans. > The guy with the truck knows far more about business than most execs at tech companies today. Yep. The guy with the truck can't lose much money for very long. A lot of tech execs have gone years without needing to worry about that because there was so much easy money around.

mbreese 4y ago
> An architect can drive around a city and point to buildings he designed I was under the impression that architects also did a lot of spec work, or designs for RFPs that don't ever get built. Or maybe only get built as a model. I'm not disagreeing with your premise -- there is a lot of programming work that is hidden, lost, or wasted. However, it's not a trait that's exclusively a programming thing.
- pishpash 4y ago
  Is there also a lot of custom rebuilding of pipes or nails, either the exact same ones or in a new shiny material?
VancouverMan 4y ago
> An architect can drive around a city and point to buildings he designed. I don't think that the situation is really that much different for building architects. In cities that are experiencing rapid densification, it's not unusual to see numerous buildings from the 1950s, if not much later, being demolished to make way for newer and larger structures. Even when structures aren't totally demolished, it's not unusual for them to be so extensively modified that the original building is virtually unrecognizable, or even completely obscured by the work of other architects. It's also quite common for building projects to be canceled before construction starts, but after designs have been prepared, and other architectural work performed. Many projects that do eventually get built often go through numerous revisions, with the final product being almost nothing like the earlier designs.

mbreese 4y ago

> An architect can drive around a city and point to buildings he designed I was under the impression that architects also did a lot of spec work, or designs for RFPs that don't ever get built. Or maybe only get built as a model. I'm not disagreeing with your premise -- there is a lot of programming work that is hidden, lost, or wasted. However, it's not a trait that's exclusively a programming thing.

pishpash 4y ago
Is there also a lot of custom rebuilding of pipes or nails, either the exact same ones or in a new shiny material?

VancouverMan 4y ago

> An architect can drive around a city and point to buildings he designed. I don't think that the situation is really that much different for building architects. In cities that are experiencing rapid densification, it's not unusual to see numerous buildings from the 1950s, if not much later, being demolished to make way for newer and larger structures. Even when structures aren't totally demolished, it's not unusual for them to be so extensively modified that the original building is virtually unrecognizable, or even completely obscured by the work of other architects. It's also quite common for building projects to be canceled before construction starts, but after designs have been prepared, and other architectural work performed. Many projects that do eventually get built often go through numerous revisions, with the final product being almost nothing like the earlier designs.