Surgery isn't learned at home, the cost of failure is so high that a certain skill level is considered the minimum. Though if you're talking about the lower bo

Surgery isn't learned at home, the cost of failure is so high that a certain skill level is considered the minimum. Though if you're talking about the lower bound for calling one's work "software engineering" you have a point, I think it's reasonable to expect some best practices from experienced developers. One problem seems to be how easy it is to underestimate the cost of bad software and what it takes to produce good quality. This reminds me a bit of the wildly inconsistent quality of CGI effects in today's movies, which is often the result of late changes and in turn insane deadlines, to some people VFX is magic anyway so why can't it also magically be done faster?