> The use of AI Coding Assistants in software development is as of now widely regarded as industry best practice

That is exactly why software development as an industry is such a shit show and explicitly not engineering.

Is software engineering a distinct discipline from software development?

@tante

@dogfox @tante I studied software engineering, and it felt highly managerial and corporate bullshit-y, like you make a grand top-down design and order lesser people around telling them what to do. The curriculum was wholly centered around Microsoft enterprise products, like a first free dose offered to students so that they later persuade employers to buy their products. (Some professors let me do my own version of their assignments using LAMP and GNU Octave instead.) I prefer software development, which has more room for experiments, soloists and grassroots communities.