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> Our job as software engineers is not to write new software This can’t mean what the plain reading would suggest it means. I mean, I can’t be the only one wri
by irrational 4y ago
> Our job as software engineers is not to write new software
This can’t mean what the plain reading would suggest it means. I mean, I can’t be the only one writing new software all the time, can I? So, what does it actually mean?
- simonw 4y agoSee this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33388466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33388466 It was a clumsy way of indicating that we very rarely start a new project from scratch - if we are building a feature it's almost always adding to an existing project.