Software engineers mimicking life.

One of the most challenging contracts I had was to reduce the amount of code in an app. Not an easy task

Unfortunately, the "goal of the software engineer" is relative to the constraints of the req's, $, and schedule. As a c# architect, with unlimited $, ⏱, and exact requirements, i could always build with max efficiency/maintainability...but then the real world happens.

Customer: "I would like to be able to combine Quotes / Orders / Shipping into one BIG screen!" (naïve smile-o-excitement) Me with estimate: "That will be (x) thousand dollars and (y) months" Customer: (pale frown) "What can i get for (<x) dollars in (<y) time? Me: (pale frown)

Code is the means, the result is the asset and the engineer is the artist

I feel at every stage human engineers should be enabled to output max functionality FAST and AI should take care of the dreaded “code rewrite” which is almost unimaginable today for company of any size.

If it generates revenue, it’s also an asset. But yes, all code is a liability.

Does that include Bitcoin

Shut up!!

But would you see first party code as different from library code if the be latter comes with some quality, security and performance guarantees? In a sense, the overall code remains more or less same but the % of first party code reduces over time.