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   jbr (jbr@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 05:09:27 JST jbr

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   I'm horrified imagining someone walking through literally any software construction site I've been involved with. “Oh yeah, that wall section over there is from an earlier revision but we didn't fully demolish it because it's not really in anyone's way currently.”

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     jbr (jbr@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 05:09:28 JST jbr

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     At this point I approach software more like "a journey of exploration through an unknown space” than a preordained building process, so it's really humbling to be reminded that other fields can show a customer a rendering of a product and then materialize that product without adjustment or correction. There's no prototyping or iteration, they just do it right

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     jbr (jbr@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 05:09:29 JST jbr

     A friend of mine is having a building built from scratch by professionals and looking at the walkthrough videos as it goes up, I finally figured why it's so wild how orderly and intentional construction is: I work in software.

     Have any of y'all ever seen a house-scale software project that was able to write out a plan and execute on the plan and deliver a functional product without encountering some sort of surprise or course correction during the process of building? I literally never have