My favorite part about being in software over the last 20 years is watching software engineers reinvent all of the processes that every other engineering discip

My favorite part about being in software over the last 20 years is watching software engineers reinvent all of the processes that every other engineering discipline has been utilizing for tens if not hundreds of years from first principles. I suppose it makes sense given how young SWE is, but I think the fact that cybernetics died and computer science was treated more like mathematics than engineering, so software people rarely if ever practice system thinking. It’s also striking that a software engineering undergraduate will never take a course on ethics, or social theory, as part of a core engineering curriculum. Whereas within the mechanical and specifically civil engineering, you will absolutely take courses that show you your social impact on your engineering. That is just never happening in software pedagogy