Trust corporate America to take something as simple as loading a text article into a digital "experience". What the hell even is that? (Its marketing jargon for ads, I know). Talk about a circle jerk around the marketing table though.
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The world didn't need as many programmers as we were led to believe. Showing text, images, and video is a solved problem. There doesn't need to be a new framework every 6 months. They don't need to throw out the last one to churn out a rehash of the same website so coders can justify their existence with some metrics of performance designed impress people who barely understand what they're seeing, but nod their head in approval so nobody realizes they're bluffing to hide their tech illiteracy. Everybody in the room is doing the same thing. The nerd with slide decks is grinning ear to ear at the approval. Maybe he starts to believe in the mythology that he might be a unicorn himself. It's exercise in collective delusion. It needs to work because everybody involved is getting crazy rich. So the delusion must go on.
You don't have your plumber come in every year and redo to all the pipes. Each time adding another superfluous section that serves naught but to make work for him. You sure don't let him install a coin operated meter so he gets a cut of your water bill every time you need to flush, and then praise him like he's the second coming of Jesus. He might be Jesus the plumber, but he's no messiah. Maybe next years rework you'll have him install a credit card swipe on your bathroom door.
Nobody is building entire trillion dollar multinational corporations around plumbing. Nobody is holding quarterly plumbers development conferences to announce the latest in pipework technology. In which the whole world streams it and watches in awe as they reveal the all new pipe join. Now for $999 a piece. You can't call your plumber fast enough. Technology is cool but people can't separate the science and engineering from the the trade work. They think the people making increasingly more cumbersome Rube Goldberg machines of code are the ones doing the science and engineering. Quite frankly I'm certain too many programmers think that too.
You're right, no one is hiring a plumber to redo their entire plumbing in a home...but they are hiring them to fix leaks and unclog drains (patching) that's what most programming is. Patching.
And most patching is fixing leaks (exploits/vulnerabilities) that can destroy your house.
A key difference is that engineering standards have grown to the point where we don’t hire a plumber to come multiple times to clear drains and patch leaks. The drains were built large enough and with proper materials to last for years without maintenance. We don’t have people constantly shoring up bridges either.
This is why some people don’t consider software engineering to be engineering.
Too many people justifying their existence by shipping unnecessary and poorly thought out features leads to unreliable, complex software that needs constant maintenance to keep it running.
We absolutely make sure bridges are looked after and maintained.
Software patches aren't just because they are being required to put out new features. A lot of it is security patches and bringing aging software to work on the latest kernels and OSs.
I think you're simplifying this a bit to much.
Usually that's on management, not the devs.
Yep, most of programming done today is reinventing the wheel by grabbing someone's Github project and slapping aggressive monetization on it.