Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over

Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing value

eh, more like self-important plumbers

Just making some corkscrew pipes because the existing architecture is corkscrew piping.

Or adding a single non-corkscrew pipe out of principle, which all the other corkscrew plumbers now have to maintain for 20 years

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And just like artists, the vast majority aren’t very good at it.

Yes but unlike artists we have far fewer sugar daddies.

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I feel this. But, in a lot of jobs you have someone forcing you to do art the way they had envisioned lol

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