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The vast differences between software and buildings correspond to the vast differences in designing them.

In context here, "minute detail" is obviously a relative term comparing the requirements of software and architecture design.

You just made up the "specific language" thing. The reason we don't get unicorns to write software for us is they don't exist either.

There are many incompetent software devs out there, but I don't see how anyone can possibly build any amount of software _well_ without having an appreciation of how to design it. This is why I used the word "capable".

The thing is, even if some of these things were similar to architecture, it would be by accident. They are, on the surface, totally different fields. On a deeper level, they're still totally different. The onus is on you to show the linkage, if you believe it to be applicable.



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