Comment by arijo

12 days ago

Perhaps that was true 50 years ago, but in an increasingly complex technological world, problems simply cannot be solved without increasingly advanced engineering skills.

The overwhelming majority of software engineers are building garden-variety CRUD apps.

  • Engineering might be a commodity if you're "building garden-variety CRUD apps"

    But a lot of companies aren't - or at least, they don't think they are.

  • Which is like saying most software is reading, modifying and writing memory. Technically true, but not at the level it tells the story.