From Stonemasons to Carpenters

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Historically, software developers were more like stonemasons, working directly with the medium (code vs stone) and incrementally building systems one stone (Line of Code) at a time. Now, however, developers make design decisions, and then the code is immediately generated, causing the developers to almost immediately see the impact of those design decisions. The role of the developer is no longer to build the software line by line as a stonemason, but instead to focus on using software engineering to build a complete system.

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