alt Hacker NewsYes, they are.
They may be doing a poor job of it - time will tell.
But, at present, they're still the ones merging PRs and deploying changes to production.
Yes, they are.
They may be doing a poor job of it - time will tell.
But, at present, they're still the ones merging PRs and deploying changes to production.
It brings to mind the Chinese Room argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
If a person in a Chinese Room doesn't actually understand Chinese, though the system as a whole behaves as if it does - can we say that the engineer merging PRs and deploying to production understands the system or maintains it?