[mock-possum]

If you could click ‘relaunch’ and the car would miraculously reappear at the top of the hill and repeat the event, allowing you to freeze time at the instant the brakes failed, then pull apart every piece of the car so you could precisely observe the failure in real-time, in slow mo, and in reverse - to pinpoint exactly what the problem was

You’re saying the power to do that makes software engineers ridiculous or impractical?

Engineering inside a digital space gives the kind of debugging abilities that would be straight up miraculous in a physical disciple. If I have one thing, and I want to make ten more of those to test in ten different ways, it’s literally just CTRL+C, CTRL+V. Let’s see a mechanic do that.

[brandensilva]

Right with software we have abstractions and flexibility. With hardware they are grounded more to the physical capabilities of the hardware.

Of course software is also limited by hardware capabilities but we can code whatever we want on that hardware as long as it fits within the provided specs.