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![potetm Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::28938094.png) Tim Pote [@potetm](/creator/twitter/potetm) on x 1047 followers
Created: 2025-07-26 04:01:38 UTC

1) this is really an observation of societal norms. non-life-threatening outcomes don’t get regulated the same way as life threatening outcomes. same holds for financial institutions, insurance companies, etc. you’re mostly observing that downside risk of software failure tends to not be life threatening.

2) whether or not a field is “real” engineering is surely judged by the field itself and behavior of practitioners rather than societal norms. not all programmers are engineers, but that doesn’t mean there are NO software engineers.


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