alt Hacker NewsThis is interesting. I had the exact opposite reaction.
You don't hear architects get hounded because they say they "built" some building even though it was definitely the guys swinging hammers that built it. But yet, somehow because he didn't artisanally hand-craft the code, he needs to caveat that he didn't actually build it?
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kalaksi • yesterday at 10:00 PM
Maybe it's a language thing. Architects saying they built something sounds a bit off to me. In my native language, and in everyday language, I don't think people would use "built" like that. I don't know how architects talk with each other, though.
architects i know say "i designed that", "i worked on that", "i specified that" or "i chose that", they don't say "i built that"