Comment by v3xro

Another one, here we go :) I think I'm going to keep it short because I am not here to convince people they're wrong, just to voice my dissent from uh almost every viewpoint this article comes from.

> Professional software developers are in the business of solving practical problems for people with code. We are not, in our day jobs, artisans.

Well that's just wrong - we have failed to capture tremendous value through knowledge of our craft and to reduce it down to min-maxing effort/profit is not a pursuit that I can get behind. Nobody is talking about building Ivory towers, but we can do a lot better than most of the common denominator technologies in use today. We're failing our users most of the time (and of course people like the author say it doesn't matter because it doesn't show up in the quarterly results).

> Nobody cares if the logic board traces are pleasingly routed.

Speak for yourself.