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by throwaway041207 47 days ago
> Another point: Software Engineering always starts where tooling capabilities stop. You don't get a competitive advantage by building without engineers what anybody everybody else can build without engineers.

I'd note here that the long arc of software engineering has been commodifying the discipline into tooling. Ask any unix greybeard how shitty modern abstractions are and they'll give you all you can stomach and yet the wheel turns despite their treasured insights.

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Well, ask any engineer about any code... ;-).