> "This may be a shock for some new folks, but it makes perfect sense. As a software engineer, your primary task is to generate value for users. Writing code is just a step that accomplishes that goal."
No other engineering discipline thinks this way. An aviation engineer's primary concerns are that the thing they're building is (1) safe and (2) efficient. Whether or not that product is profitable will depend on marketing and competition at a whole other level. It's NOT the engineer's primary concern. This is also true for electrical, chemical, civil, etc. engineering.
If there are a lot of software engineers that think this way, all that means is that the discipline is still in its infancy and hasn't adopted the kind of engineering standards that others have had to over time. Maybe the kinds of standards and regulations applied to sellers of electrical devices should be applied to every company that sells software?
> "This may be a shock for some new folks, but it makes perfect sense. As a software engineer, your primary task is to generate value for users. Writing code is just a step that accomplishes that goal."
No other engineering discipline thinks this way. An aviation engineer's primary concerns are that the thing they're building is (1) safe and (2) efficient. Whether or not that product is profitable will depend on marketing and competition at a whole other level. It's NOT the engineer's primary concern. This is also true for electrical, chemical, civil, etc. engineering.
If there are a lot of software engineers that think this way, all that means is that the discipline is still in its infancy and hasn't adopted the kind of engineering standards that others have had to over time. Maybe the kinds of standards and regulations applied to sellers of electrical devices should be applied to every company that sells software?