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There's a significant difference in the type of workmanship involved, though. David Pye called the traditional way the "workmanship of risk" and the modern way the "workmanship of certainty"

Although software engineers do have a lot of discretion about how they do their job, it's not a repeated process of judgement and dexterity in the way traditional crafts were.

See http://topologicalmedialab.net/xinwei/classes/readings/philt...