> Here, software engineering is simply not viewed as prestigious or important, or often, even as valuable. The science is viewed as valuable. Specifically, pub

> Here, software engineering is simply not viewed as prestigious or important, or often, even as valuable. The science is viewed as valuable. Specifically, publishing is viewed as valuable. And publishing is a frozen-in-time snapshot. Ergo, all the things that drive quality software elsewhere (SRE, maintainability, interpretability) simply don't exist as incentives. > [Low product sales count is] real tough math to make work. Whereas Google pays gmail engineers really well, in part because they spread those costs over a billion users. Also a great observation. Most cutting edge is, by definition, mostly custom. It's really hard to amortize even incredibly valuable things over tiny population counts and still pay market software engineering wages.