This is also hard to agree with: "Software development is not carpentry. Almost everything a developer writes is unique, they have never built that particular

This is also hard to agree with: "Software development is not carpentry. Almost everything a developer writes is unique, they have never built that particular thing before. We are not cabinet makers repeating a variation of something we've built hundreds of times before." Some software development fits this description. Quite a lot of it does not.