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by cluckindan 111 days ago
Engineering is the process of planning and implementing the simplest thing that works within given constraints.

There is no planning, implementing, or constraint here.

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If engineering is about implementing the simplest thing then why do we call implementing the most complicated thing overengineering and not underengineering?
> There is no planning, implementing, or constraint here.

That's because most AI use is reverse engineering!

Resolving static into a valid problem through the sheer force of squinting at it long enough!

Sounds like it's time for the "engineering" definition to get a modern update.
There is "engineering, the discipline", "engineering, the process", "engineering, the vocation, the career path, the learning process" (and many more). Each hat an engineer wears (based on age and context (has its peculiar aspects which might appear to be contradictory with other phases and not all people walked and thrived through all the phases.