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by liquidise 165 days ago
“The primary job of software engineers is to make software suck less.” - a university professor i had, 20 years ago.

Let’s not romanticize the past because it’s easier to ship (probably still buggy) code today.
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physPop 165 days ago
its not though. the primary job of software engineers is to ship a product that produces income for their employer.
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dcreater 160 days ago
Does this definition work for SWEs who develop open source projects?
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