[arijo]

Perhaps that was true 50 years ago, but in an increasingly complex technological world, problems simply cannot be solved without increasingly advanced engineering skills.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

The overwhelming majority of software engineers are building garden-variety CRUD apps.

[michaelt]

Engineering might be a commodity if you're "building garden-variety CRUD apps"

But a lot of companies aren't - or at least, they don't think they are.

[PeterStuer]

Which is like saying most software is reading, modifying and writing memory. Technically true, but not at the level it tells the story.

[supportengineer]

If that was really true, the world would need only ONE generic CRUD app. It just needs to operate at scale.