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A single panel comic with a malformed, slightly damaged, yet freshly built home in the background. In the foreground, a man in a hard hat and a reflective vest is speaking to another man, presumably the buyer, saying, “It’s called vibe construction. I’m not even a contractor! Pretty soon all buildings will be made this way.”

  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    2 hours ago

    both are real engineers (but no, a simple programmer is not a software engineer), so you can skip the quotes. but yes, CIVIL engineers are licensed, opposed to most other (mechanical, electrical…) engineers

    • grue@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I am someone who has worked professionally as both a civil engineer and a software “engineer.” When I put scare quotes around the latter, I mean them.

      The difference in rigor, sense of responsibility for the public good, and especially power to push back against harmful ideas by management, is shocking.

      DRM, enshittification, dark patterns, Cambridge Analytica, sneaky “telemetry:” none of that shit would be allowed to exist because it would violate professional ethical standards, if software “engineering” were a real profession that had any!

      • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        59 minutes ago

        Don’t blame the dev for what the system lacks. We took millenia to get here for buildings and had rich people and politicians literally falling through floors drowning in shit before. Software is relatively new and gets extorted for maximum profit while slow-moving projects that try to do everything right get shamed (and usually extorted since doing it right entails Open-Source, which now gets laundered through probability engines). There are effectively no guardrails devs can use to protect something from bad ideas management has, and management is on an AI-induced power trip right now.

        In such an environment actual buildings would also be made out of paper and have surveillance cams in the subscription-based toilet. I’d bet someone from a country with a corrupt system and lack of regulation enforcement could tell you tales about it. I think you were just lucky.