Comment by 2OEH8eoCRo0

18 hours ago

It's a pet peeve because the truth hurts. We (most of us) aren't doing anything that resembles engineering.

I'd agree that applies to people, or more accurately specific projects, but not the discipline of software engineering as a whole.

Even most of the projects I personally have worked on simply did not need "engineering" as such, but other projects where uptime was critical and the cost of failure was high, there was a much higher level of rigor.