A fallacy in software development and management thereof is the idea that software developers are fungible.

This is not intuitive for folks to reason about because programming does entail at a fundamental level accounting and bookkeeping. Put this into a container, grab this lock in this order, call this function …

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Consider the table saw. If you are not familiar with woodworking, this is a type of shop saw. A circular blade comes out from a table surface. It can be adjusted with a decent amount of precision to make cuts of a specified depth and angle.

One might naively think …

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