One reason that, three and a half years later, Andreessen is reiterating that “it’s time to build” instead of writing posts called “Here’s What I Built During the Building Time I Previously Announced Was Commencing” is that Marc Andreessen has not really built much of anything.
increasingly attracted to making “engineer” a more widely protected term
As I’ve mentioned before, software “engineering” all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.
But then, I’ve had a reverse snobbery about the term “engineer” for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I’m really a technician.
This is why I think Henry Petroski’s To Engineer Is Human should be required reading for anyone in software
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Sorry, I shouldn’t respond with a link to a one hour video. But it’s Alan Kay.
nah, I’ve got a YouTube video for this exact thread and it’s only 4 hours long is already an awful.systems tradition
Alan Kay agrees with you https://youtu.be/D43PlUr1x_E