Comment by stuffn

Software engineers are desperate to have their work be like machining aircraft parts.

It’s a tool. No one cares about code quality because the person using your code isn’t affected by it. There are better and worse tools. No one cares whether a car is made with SnapOn tools or milled on HAAS machines. Only that it functions.

We know there is no long term merit to this idea just looking back at the last 40 years of coding.