It fascinates me how little respect software engineers get. The entire internet paints a picture of software engineers as useless code producing monkeys.
I haven’t seen anything similar in any other engineering industry.
I've seen people estimate two days of work for a manual headline content update on a mature code base they know.
No new tests, no new design, no new implementation. Literally just a single word swapped.
Turns out the engineerinng team had uncertainty with the new testing framework that was mandated, and rather than document it they blew up their velocity.
This approach bites back. When work isn't understood, people on the outside disrespect the workers.
Isn’t it a bit suspect that that particular image benefits a special new tool about which the OP is heavily speculating?
I am very surprised that no one in HN can see the correlation of the narrative and speculations vs the absurd age thrown around only to be repeated by actual people whose image is being tarnished because the mass narrative wants them to feel powerless(first stage of wage suppression).
Because in other industries the engineers know something about the real world thing that they're engineering, they aren't just manipulating abstractions.
I haven’t seen anything similar in any other engineering industry.