"Completely agree on software engineering. …engineering really shares a lot more with writing than with building bridges."
OK, so what happens when the weak link in the chain in building a bridge or other critical structure like a plane is the software that helped design it?
So-called software engineers want their cake and eat it too. They aren't prepared for the rigors and discipline of real engineering yet they expect to take equal part (and claim credit) in engineering projects.
That's how we get disasters such as the 737Max and I'd bet London to a brick it won't be the last.
Nah, managers are usually the ones that are not prepared for the rigors and discipline, because managers view writing code as something both easy and kind of wishy-washy.
OK, so what happens when the weak link in the chain in building a bridge or other critical structure like a plane is the software that helped design it?
So-called software engineers want their cake and eat it too. They aren't prepared for the rigors and discipline of real engineering yet they expect to take equal part (and claim credit) in engineering projects.
That's how we get disasters such as the 737Max and I'd bet London to a brick it won't be the last.
I'm not alone in holding this view: https://www.fceia.unr.edu.ar/asist/gibbs00.html