[kazinator]

> It is the responsibility of a capable software engineer

Nobody is saying that it's a acceptable for an engineer to screw up and then blame it on the tools (compiler, slide rule, calculator, ...).

However, if something goes wrong in your work, it's foolish not to recognize the role of the tools, even though it's not acceptable to blame them as a public position.

As objective observers of a situation gone wrong in engineering, we do have the privilege of assigning blame between people and tools. Tools are the work of people also. The choice of tools is also susceptible to criticism. We have to be able to take an objective look at our own work.