eh, more like self-important plumbers
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halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over
Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing value
porgamrer@programming.dev 9 months ago
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Just making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.
porgamrer@programming.dev 9 months ago
Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years
lambda@programming.dev 9 months ago
I feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol
callouscomic@lemm.ee 9 months ago
And just like artists, the vast majority aren’t very good at it.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yes but unlike artists we have far fewer sugar daddies.