Re:Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
by mechEpleb on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:08AM
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An engineer's job is to solve a problem creatively, not execute a rote technical procedure. The people who are just fed detailed instructions to execute are called "technicians" in the traditional industries. If you want to claim the title of an engineer, act like one. If all you can do is write code to spec, you are a technician.
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Re:Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
by gugagore on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:22AM
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Your use of "spec" here is a weasel word to make your point. There are many kinds of specs. The spec here is "users need a physical copy", the organization was intending to solve it by using the services of another business and a bunch of other expensive and complicated stuff that I was considering as categorically different from software.