> I say this as someone who loves software: software is not special. Based on your comment I’m interpreting “special” as “better”, or “harder”. I interpreted

> I say this as someone who loves software: software is not special. Based on your comment I’m interpreting “special” as “better”, or “harder”. I interpreted the comment you replying to as software is “special” as in it is “different” and the differences require different solutions than other fields have. Like when I talk to my civil engineer friends I only on the surface comprehend what they are dealing with when they need to move literal thousands of tons of mass. I can try and make an analogy to my own experience with bandwidth and memory, but nothing will be a 1:1 comparison with the amount of energy used when the physical mass of the entire internet is within an order of magnitude of a strawberry. Simultaneously my civil engineers friends don’t have to deal with a situation of one of their apprentices making a logical mistake based on a single missed `!` and their features suddenly using up 100% of all resources everywhere