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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Software development isseparated from engineeringby circumstance rather than… HW Hillel Wayne — holds since 2021-01-18 Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work. Saying that coding willbe automated away first… KB Kent Beck — holds since 2026-07-01 Programming, not diagramming, is where an engineer actually learns, because code is the point at which you can no longer fool yourself about what you understand. Programming, notdiagramming, is where… KB Kent Beck — holds since 2026-07-01 The engineering intuition that matters cannot be taught from a textbook — you know bad patterns in software because you have debugged them at three in the morning. The engineeringintuition that matters… DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 Programmers fail to recognise how much mathematics their job uses because the mathematics it needs is discrete and school teaches the continuous kind. Programmers fail torecognise how much… HW Hillel Wayne — holds since 2026-07-29 Software's constraints are soft where traditional engineering's are hard, and that is one of the few real differences between them. Software's constraintsare soft where… HW Hillel Wayne — holds since 2021-01-20 Software developers probably are engineers after all, on the evidence of the people who did both jobs -- though that research was done before LLMs. Software developersprobably are engineers… HW Hillel Wayne — holds since 2026-07-29 Much of the wisdom programmers pass on to each other is nonsense that nobody ever tested, and refusing to be dogmatic about untested practice is what marks out a good engineer. Much of the wisdomprogrammers pass on to… CM Casey Muratori — holds since 2026-08-26 Building on a model is unlike any previous software engineering, because the thing you are building on cannot be designed up front. Building on a model isunlike any previous… BC Boris Cherny — holds since 2026-07-27
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