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I was an industrial electrician before I was a paid programmer. I worked with engineers, what we generally do isn’t engineering by the standards of those engin
by noir_lord 1y ago
I was an industrial electrician before I was a paid programmer.
I worked with engineers, what we generally do isn’t engineering by the standards of those engineers.
Which isn’t to say that all software development isn’t.
People writing avionics software and medical software etc are doing what I’d recognise as engineering.
It’s about the process more than anything.
Software in the wild is simply a young field and we aren’t there yet widely.
- consumer451 1y agoRelated: > Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747804 ___ Think about how physical engineering orgs are formed. It's a collective of engineers, as it should be. The reason is that zero consequence management abstraction layers cannot exist in a realm with true legal responsibility. Real engineering org structure is written in blood. I wonder what it will take for software to face that reality. I know that lack of regulation leads to faster everything, and I really do appreciate and love that... but as software continues to eat the world, there will be real consequences eventually, right? The reason that real engineering liability goes back to at least the Code of Hammurabi is that people got killed by bad decisions and corner cutting. What will that look like in software history?
- cwillu 1y agoIn the 90's, “Software is a young field” had a point. In the 2020's though, I think we have to start admitting to ourselves that it is largely an immature/developmentally-delayed field.