Changing requirements and development landscape do not an analogy to a gardener make. I do not 'grow' nor 'tend' code, trusting some unknown universal force to

Changing requirements and development landscape do not an analogy to a gardener make. I do not 'grow' nor 'tend' code, trusting some unknown universal force to keep me on the right path. I engineer buildings, bridges, roads, tunnels - all sorts. Sometimes they're very small and sometimes they're very large but they're all subject to the forces pushing and pulling on them - my job is to build them and keep them upright as well as I can subject to the laws and constraints of the environment. I am not a gardener. I am an engineer building, modifying, and destroying complex structures daily in a controlled dance so as to keep their superstructure useful and safe. Only to the naive eye could such complexity be reduced to such apparent simplicity.