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I’ve never had respect for the industry as a whole, only individuals within. There has a been a serious lack of rigor and professionalism in software engineerin

I’ve never had respect for the industry as a whole, only individuals within. There has a been a serious lack of rigor and professionalism in software engineering for as long as I’ve been a part of it

jihadjihad 6mo ago
It's a slap in the face that we tack engineering onto it. A very small percentage of software engineering is as rigorous as actual engineering.
- dgxyz 6mo ago
  As an actual engineer who moved into software "engineering", yes this. It kills me.
  - DANmode 6mo ago
    Top three things lacking? (In your personal opinion)
    - dgxyz 6mo ago
      Fads and fashion over strong, tested technology. Attitude that you can fix broken stuff later and customers are fine with it. Charlatans and fuckwits everywhere who wouldn't last a second in a traditional engineering discipline.
      - DANmode 6mo ago
        Checks out. and thank you!
- emptyfile 6mo ago
  If it makes you feel any better, I don't think that's the case in most of the non English speaking world. Mostly we're just called programmers.
- rcxdude 6mo ago
  As someone who works in a few different engineering disciplines, I think software engineers often have a very rosy picture of other areas of engineering. The problems are different, but things are not any better on average.