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Software engineers are not artists nor shoemakers. They are factory makers.

A good analyst makes a hand-crafted, custom report in a day. A programmer makes a factory that makes thousands of reports per second for a thousand clients.

I am yet to find a factory at HomeGoods.

Now the kind of factories we make might change, but isn't it the fun part?

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> Now the kind of factories we make might change, but isn't it the fun part?

No, I don't think it's the fun part. Judging by the number of people glooming over LLMs, not many people seem excited about it.

I remember when the Mac made everyone a publisher.
Great programmers learn all documents are high latency state-machines.

A "Report" is just a document feature projection.

People may initially think this is in err, then think again... =3