oce 🐆@jlai.lu to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agoSoftware engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected.message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down116
arrow-up1-7arrow-down1message-squareSoftware engineering may have been one of the few modern engineering roles that combine both engineering (designing) tasks and technical craftsmanship (coding) tasks. Maybe until LLMs gets perfected.oce 🐆@jlai.lu to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareOutwit1294@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·10 months agoCoding is not craftsmanship
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.luOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoWhy not? Are you not creating the product with your own hands?
minus-squareOutwit1294@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoYes, it is work. It is a skill. Craftsmanship is taking it a step too far.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.luOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoDoesn’t it take some years of study and then some years of practice with seniors to master it, just like a craft, except it is words instead of physical matter?
Coding is not craftsmanship
Why not? Are you not creating the product with your own hands?
Yes, it is work. It is a skill. Craftsmanship is taking it a step too far.
Doesn’t it take some years of study and then some years of practice with seniors to master it, just like a craft, except it is words instead of physical matter?