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by DantesKite 1694 days ago
Software engineering is an amplifier in almost every domain.

There's a nuclear technology company that open-sourced a tool for measuring fuel efficiency. https://github.com/terrapower/armi

But it's by no means the most important tool. There's a lot of hard, physical engineering problems that can be solved.

I think of software engineering like motor oil. You can apply it across a wide variety of contexts, but it's by no means the engine.