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  • hglman@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat is the point of dbus?
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    6 months ago

    Well said. There are so many details to making code work that can so often be avoided by using the right tooling. OP said it was harder to get started, which implies they did not handle the details and have code not actually robust to all kinds of edge cases. Maybe they don’t need it but they probably do.




  • hglman@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlwe are safe
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    7 months ago

    Engineering is about trust. In all other and generally more formalized engineering disciplines, the actual job of an engineer is to provide confidence that something works. Software engineering may employ fewer people because the tools are better and make people much more productive, but until everyone else trusts the computer more, the job will exist.

    If the world trusts AI over engineers then the fact that you don’t have a job will be moot.