[whateveracct]

if there was a market for crappy bridges that collapse, "real" engineering standards would be lower

idk maybe it's because all my software in my career has been about "real stuff" (and i write Haskell), but this "software engineering is a joke" take has been going on since before I can remember and it doesn't speak for me. Maybe I just do a good job.

Software is just fundamentally different. But one nice thing (and why I bailed on "real" engineering) is how portable the skills are. I can easily use my skills to benefit myself in so many small and big ways. I couldn't do much with, say, chemical engineering hahah.

I agree that AI is accelerating all the worst of the worst garbage practices.

[schonfinkel]

If you come from a pure FP or embedded systems background you are exposed to a much better version of "sofware engineering" than your average React dev out there. The bar created by webdev is so low it made the whole industry look like a joke.