Edit: also, I'm not exactly filled with knowledge on new lamp design/construction, but I have seen startups/kickstarters that make new lamps that seem like redesigns from the ground up.

I am quite plainly talking about writing code that runs efficiently to support a wide-variety of tasks. To do that, one needs to write code that runs fast on your targeted platforms and is extensible/easy-to-modify (not necessarily the same thing to be clear).

We may have different definitions of "architecture" though, I tend to think of "architecture" at the system level, i.e. "this service handles these responsibilities, this other one handles these, they communicate with this interface/contract, etc". I can see how you could take the term "architecture" down to a lower level where you talk about classes/files passing information between each other too. I think to do that sort of lower-level architecture well though you basically need to write code in your design, even if it's just pseudocode.

As I pointed out above though, aerospace engineers (working on rockets/space applications anyway, IDK about planes) and electrical engineers don't need those tests. Requiring it for CEs seems like a historical artifact more than anything.

Aerospace engineers who build rockets do not have some certification body allowing them to be called engineers. Same with most electrical engineers working on almost everything.

If you think a government deciding who is an engineer is a *good* thing then maybe you should ask yourself why the United States which doesn't require this for the two non-software engineering disciplines has the best engineers in the world.

If you have a site whose performance steadily gets worse and the rate of new features steadily declines and the rate of bugs steadily goes up, then your site/app will probably not have a great future.

All of those things depend on solid code. If staff engineers who are too busy talking and building consensus such that they aren't connected with the actual programming and situation on the ground, then all the talking and consensus-building won't matter.

Pretty sure most people just sit in the default requirement 20XX year funds, which heavily weight away from equities once people are retirement age.

"Most organizations improperly account for engineering teams and incorrectly consider both code and team growth to be assets when in fact they increase complexity..... but LLMs can fix all of this"

Wtf?

Measuring things that actually matter is a great way to improve clarity on a team, you can probably just stop reading this article at the halfway point.

EDIT:

Specifically this paragraph is insane

"The obvious objection is that code produced at that speed becomes unmanageable, a liability in itself. That is a reasonable concern, but it largely applies when agents produce code that humans then maintain. Agentic platforms are being iterated upon quickly, and for established patterns and non-business-critical code, which is the majority of what most engineering organizations actually maintain, detailed human familiarity with the codebase matters less than it once did. A messy codebase is still cheaper to send ten agents through than to staff a team around. And even if the agents need ten days to reason through an unfamiliar system, that is still faster and cheaper than most development teams operating today. The liability argument holds in a human-to-human or agent-to-human world. In an agent-to-agent world, it largely dissolves."

> I personally think it's enough to show that Elon has given a bullhorn to some of the loudest white supremacist voices out there and personally allied himself with a president who has repeatedly targeted those most vulnerable minorities: trans people, immigrants (including green card holders, asylum seekers and, increasingly, naturalized citizens), Muslims and others.

Right, so you think anyone who's allied with Trump is a Nazi. To be incredibly clear, I have never voted for Trump, but people like you who are incapable of nuance are what is wrong with everything in the world.

You may doubt whether I'm arguing in good faith, but I long ago became certain that you are not arguing with good reasoning skills.