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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by blueblisters on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @08:30AM (#32150552)
Software engineering is not easy but no profession comes close to software engineering when it comes to the sheer number of high-paying jobs it creates. I think much of the "alpha" comes from being truly cross-disciplinary - all jobs can perhaps eventually be abstracted away into code, including software engineering itself.
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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by bumby on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @08:17PM (#32159695)
One thing that becomes apparent when working on important, safety critical stuff is that cross-disciplinary problems require a team, many of whom are not SWE, because there’s a ton of domain specific and tacit knowledge a SWE generally won’t know.

Writing software to control a rocket or surgery or, hell, just a commonplace boiler shouldn’t be approach cavalierly.

Edit: to the downvoter(s): what claim do you have issue with? Do you think safety critical software can be treated cavalierly? Or that SWEs can replace that domain knowledge without other domain experts?

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