Reading this for the N-th time inspired in me the observation that one difference betweent software engineers and carpenters is that software engineers tend to

Reading this for the N-th time inspired in me the observation that one difference betweent software engineers and carpenters is that software engineers tend to spend most of their time dealing with things they've never seen before, or variations therefore (new bug, new OS, new framework, new programming langauge, etc etc) whereas carpenters tend to spend most of their time doing the things that they know how to do perfectly.