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Re:For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day by hamrocksissors on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:59PM (#47998908)
Chemical engineer here - I look at this similar to how a lot of professional engineers work, drafting gets passed off to eng techs, pfds get passed off to eng techs... The "actual engineering" is in the ideas, the applications, the reviews, and most importantly the final accountability.
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Re:For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day by pdhborges on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:44PM (#47999450)
Works great. No wonder China is eating our lunch.
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Re:For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day by skydhash on Sunday May 03, 2026 @03:52PM (#48000728)
Studied Electronic Engineering and have friends in Civil Engineering. By the time, you get to the actual implementation, the design has been tested so many times that errors are often material defects, not design defects. Engineering is about ironing out all the design defects and have all relevant unknowns be known.

Working with claude is closer to “grandma recipes” than any engineering or scientific practice.

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