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by yen223 958 days ago
I think people who think software engineering isn't real engineering, will be shocked at how much "real" engineering is just people plugging numbers into software
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Yeah, in my experience, the real world engineering was rushed, under funded, relied on gut feel, and could count on the humans on site building it to use their own judgement to make up for all the gaps in the designs, drawings or specs.

Although back then in the 90s it was plugging numbers into tables rather than software. Very little science involved in any of it.

Big time. Some folks on this site have serious "grass is greener" issues.