>Heck, you could be working on a hardware circuit, but if the only thing you had to do was make sure the right wires, resistors, capacitors, etc. were in place

>Heck, you could be working on a hardware circuit, but if the only thing you had to do was make sure the right wires, resistors, capacitors, etc. were in place between the chips you're still just doing plumbing work. A lot of modern hardware design feels like that, take a microcontroller, some peripheral chips, connect them together, and copy the datasheets for whatever support passives they need.