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rob05c · 3178 days ago · link · · parent · post: #ilooklikeanengineer wants to challenge your ideas about who can work in tech
calling themselves "engineers"
The Codeless Code has a good story on the difference between software engineers and "real" engineers.
And when the engineer asked "what happens when a truck drives across your software and falls into the river?" the monks hied themselves the fuck back to never-never land. That story illustrates that coders have more in common with dressmakers than engineers. The world needs both and both are honorable, storied professions... But the fact of the matter is, the physical and the conceptual lack commonality.
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