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It is revisionist to say that software engineering was never about writing code. It was, in fact, a huge component, and it also wasn't easy. Sure most code is g
by skiing_crawling 1mo ago
It is revisionist to say that software engineering was never about writing code. It was, in fact, a huge component, and it also wasn't easy. Sure most code is glue but even the glue was tedious and the actual hard and novel parts still aren't really done that well by AI (yet).
It's less about writing code now but we're lying if we try to pretend it was a distraction and not a big part of the real work.
And every claim about what the job actually is or was all along has an implied (for now) at the end of it.
- tchalla 1mo agoSoftware engineering was never about writing "just" code. Simply writing code was not enough in most business environments.
- skiing_crawling 1mo agoI didn't use the word "just"
- tchalla 1mo agoI did. I am adding on to your argument. In general, a reply to you never needs to be a counter. It can be a build up too.
- ebiederm 1mo agoSpitting out code as fast as our fingers could type has never been the job. There has always been a lot of think time. Which is why the productivity of people of people has never been correlated with typing speed. In other jobs productivity is correlated with typing speed and in those jobs a typing speed like 60wpm is part of the job requirements.