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by lasereyes136 847 days ago
Build software isn't like building physical things. Software and physical things operate under different constraints. All analogies are are wrong or off but some are insightful.

The insight here is that people expect things not based on reality but on desire. With architecture there is a process to give the architect leverage to say no to ridiculous requests, architects need to be licensed, which is hard to get.

We have no such leverage in IT so we get threatened with "do it or I will find someone that will" and businesses are always trying to find that cheaper someone or group of people that will do the work they have in their head on time, for a cheap budget, and without asking a lot of questions like "why do you think I would know something you didn't say or write down".