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> Who do you think puts systems like a web search engine together? A really good programmer who is free from the tyranny of software “engineering”.
by steve_taylor 3y ago
> Who do you think puts systems like a web search engine together?
A really good programmer who is free from the tyranny of software “engineering”.
- carom 3y agoI believe this more and more as I go through my career. There is usually one person carrying progress hard. If you can get three or four of those people and another one to coordinate them you can do truly amazing things. Usually though you just need one unencumbered by bureaucracy.
- sfn42 3y agoNot sure what you guys think software engineering means, but it's definitely not the same as what I think it means.
- wiseowise 3y agoSoftware engineering is whatever definition that allows me to procrastinate and sleep at night knowing I don’t need to learn more.
- sfn42 3y agoIf you don't want to learn you chose the wrong profession.
- fragmede 3y agoTo expand, the software industry moves fast, and you have to keep learning to stay afloat, or risk stagnating and ending your career early. look at where software was at 5 or 10 or even 20 years ago. There was no react and no rust 20 years ago, nor was there even git! Whatever you know now is going to be out of date in a matter of years. good luck getting a job if that's all you ever want to learn.
- yakshaving_jgt 3y agoConversely, 10 years ago we also had Grunt, Gulp, etc, which were poor implementations of build systems we had ~40 years ago. It’s not all progress.
- kortilla 3y agoStagnating yes, but not ending career early. There will be python/java/c/c++ jobs for decades just keeping the lights on for non-tech companies.
- wiseowise 3y agoSay that to people in this thread.