Why are we so bad at software engineering?

Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:57PM (#22314690)

This is the dumbest comment in the whole thread. You can’t design software if you aren’t building. There’s just so many unforeseen problems that come up when you’re actually in the thick of it. It’s not like a house that you build 1000 times from the same plan. Every single piece of software is unique in some major way.

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Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? by mLuby on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:42PM (#22314894)

There are so many CRUD apps out there, they could be spec'd with such specificity that they only need a "coder" to complete the tickets. But the tech industry's combined architects/engineers and construction workers into a single developer role.

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Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? by pwm on Thursday February 13, 2020 @12:58PM (#22319797)

There are no such thing as a CRUD app and every app is a CRUD app.

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Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? by mLuby on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:17PM (#22320497)

Reductio!

Someone who can make a boxy UI, hook those boxes up to {{text templates}}, and make GET/POST/PUT/DELETE calls (to RESTful API just thinly wrapping a SQL DB) can recreate a shocking number of popular web and mobile apps. Those are CRUD apps.

Non-CRUD apps have an unusual (non-boxy) UI, non-trivial backend processing/integrations, or both.

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