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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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The Essence of Software Engineering at an Industrial Scale

Jimmy Cevallos: I'm not gonna give an essence because yeah, I don't think I can do that. He seems here to be narrowly focused on what the essence of a software entity is. And then he wants to say the hard part is of building software is the essence basically. But like he's talking about productivity, reliability, simplicity and all these other things which just don't seem to play into it. It could be a maybe a definition for programming in the small, but once we're like past that it feels like a very weird definition.

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