Amanpour: I think being a software engineer in the modern context is more like being a craftsman than being a scientist. It's more about the techniques and the tools and the methodologies and the culture of it, he says. "You don't need to understand those things to build an application that helps people get in a taxi and get to the airport, right? It's true," Amanpour adds. 'It really depends what you want to do'