Erik Bosmanbrainsmoke@mastodon.social
Oct 5, 2026, 2:18 PM@wfk Maybe the biggest problem of today's software engineering culture is that stale code is thoroughly undervalued. 🙁
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Oct 6, 2026, 8:45 PM@brainsmoke We call them "stable packages"
Oct 6, 2026, 9:54 PM@brainsmoke
When I did my "Software Engineering" course at uni, the professor started by pointing out that the "Software Engineering" field really wasn't worthy of the "Engineering" moniker.
There was no established engineering practice to ensure that an architecture, or the resulting product, met all the necessary functional and safety requirements. Applying Software Engineering practices on a construction site would lead to instant loss of license. Not much has improved since.- Erik Bosmanbrainsmoke@mastodon.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:55 PM
@wfk It's facepalms all the way down.