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>Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives You don't
by MPSimmons 4y ago
>Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives
You don't need another name for this. This is part of the engineering process.
- angarg12 4y agoGlad to see I'm not the only one baffled by this article. If you've ever developed and maintained software in production, you had to deal with failures. Is just part of the regular software development lifecycle.
- throwaway5959 4y ago
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoHow can you prove your blogging chops if you don't name stuff? You see this a lot in academia as well, they absolutely love to name things, and think the teaching and learning of those names is important in some manner.
- croo 4y agoI usuall call this "meta-programming" or "meta-work". The work you need to do in order to make way for actual work.