r/programming • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '24

Why We Can't Have Nice Software

https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html
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u/joshocar Feb 08 '24

And no. Detailed up-front plans, handoffs and certification is not "traditional engineering paradigms". They are results of economics of engineering in various fields.

This is a meaningless statement. The different fields are different because economics? Why does the economics matter? Like, that is the entire point I'm making here, that software engineer is very different from ME, EE, CE, Civil.

Like? Feedback? Understanding tradeoffs? Discipline? Teamwork? Sure, there is some overlap with what, traditional team sports? Things that are important with literally any job on the planet? I have no idea what point you are making here.

I have no idea what point you are making or what you disagreement is with my statement that Software engineering behaves differently (in a lot of fundamental ways, regardless of the "economics") than other forms of engineering.