Chou: Software engineers must act as both architects and construction workers
Tracy Chow · a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy · Jan 2, 2019 · at 11:16
Tracy Chou, software engineer and former Pinterest engineer, discusses software engineering paradigms during a panel on coding literacy.
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“Building a software application is somewhat like building a physical building except that the software engineer also has to be a bit of an architect, as well as a construction worker.”
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