Comment by fzeroracer

> Do you think compilers helped teams ship more value faster from worse developers? IDEs with autocomplete? Linters?

I'm tired of engaging with this false equivalence so I won't. Deterministic systems are not the same.

> It's not art -- it's a machine that works and does a thing.

That's right. But what you need to understand is that the machines we create can and do actively harm people. Leaking secure information, creating software that breaks systems and takes down critical infrastructure. We are engineers first and foremost and artists second. And that means designing systems to be robust and safe. If you can't understand that then you shouldn't be an engineer and should kindly fuck off.