Re:I’ve made a conscious effort to stop apologizing for bugs...
by user5994461 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:07AM
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A software engineer can easily kill tens of people with a typo. Medical devices have a ton of software and it's only increasing.
Medical staff have the equivalent of code review and test environments. Non-routine operations have always multiple people in the room. They have bodies to practice on.
Do yourself a favour and drop the attitude. Medical and software industries both have some very difficult jobs.
Are you saying you went straight to writing production code before you ever studied any software engineering? Sounds unusual for practitioners of an industry endowed with such a critical responsibility.
A dentist can easily kill someone through malpractice... There's no code review, there's no test environment, and there are always difficult (often time-sensitive) decisions to make and difficult people to deal with.
If all you know is estimating story points and merging pull requests to make your burn-down chart look pretty you probably shouldn't be so confident that your profession is more difficult or more superior than one that you have no understanding of.