Elevators, Subways, and Rocket Launchers: The Unpredictable Path of Software Development

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There's been plenty of ink spilled on the topic of what to call software engineers. Hackers? Coders? Developers? This semantic debate has been mostly boring to me until recently. It's hard to find one term to use to describe our job because our job can change so much from day to day. When you're building at scale, the job can superficially resemble classical engineering. You need to build a model…

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