[paganel]

> Things like these were common in construction before software engineering was a thing

I read in an architect's memoirs that when he was a student back in the 1940s whenever his Architecture faculty teacher and his students visited a construction site to maybe change some small details (or at least they were perceived as "small" by said architects) oftentimes they were met with very angry construction site workers who would make the above architects think again about trying to force the implementation of those small changes. A similar story was told to me by my father (also a civil engineer) as happening in the 1980s, though the level of implied violence coming from the construction workers was a little more subdued. Wish that we in the software industry would be like those construction workers from time to time.

[InitialLastName]

You have the metaphor wrong. You're the software engineer. Your toolset is the angry (or not) construction worker. Build a toolset that yells at you when you want to do something stupid/dangerous.

[Accujack]

Interestingly, the mindset of the people who develop software toolsets (and operating systems like Unix) is exactly the opposite.

[OneWingedShark]

> Build a toolset that yells at you when you want to do something stupid/dangerous.

Why do you think I'm a fan of Ada? (And looking to get into VHDL, too.)

[lallysingh]

.. a type checker?

[rendall]

> Wish that we in the software industry would be like those construction workers from time to time.

A cluster of burly construction workers holding spanners is probably more physically intimidating than whatever we software developers could typically muster.

[bregma]

What if I made the caffe latte really really hot before brandishing it?

[treypitt]

We need to form unions. That would spark the change in culture and physical fitness we need to throw our weight around.

[ralusek]

Please no. If I had to be unionized, I'd change professions.