Comment by Devasta
3 days ago
Imagine software engineering was like real engineering, where the engineers had licensing and faced fines or even prison for negligence. How much of the modern worlds software would be tolerated?
Very, very little.
If engineers handled the Citicorp center the same way software engineers did, the fix would have been to update the documentation in Confluence to not expose the building to winds and then later on shrug when it collapsed.
"If this country built bridges they way it builds [information] systems, we'd be a nation run by ferryboats." --Tim Bryce