Comment by bdangubic
1 month ago
> you are left looking at a mountain of code you don’t understand. And by the time you do, you could have just built it yourself.
SWEs that do not have (or develop) this skill (to fill-in the 10% that doesn’t work and fully understand the 90% that works and very, very quickly) will be plumbers in a few years if not earlier.
SWEs that don’t understand the strengths and limitations of their tools allowing them to choose the right one for the job won’t be software developers much longer, but they definitely won’t be plumbers. Maybe cycling through the gig platforms or working entry-level retail. Soft, arrogant, maladroit white collar workers make hilariously pathetic trade apprentices.