Engineering is the art of technical and economic tradeoffs. Engineers use their judgement, experienced engineers simply have a larger pool of good and bad judgements to draw on. They still get things wrong for the same reasons Uncle Bob has to debug the code he writes, they're human and make mistakes.
The domain of automobile use encompasses more variables than a website - there's no sleet over TCP/IP and broken internationalization doesn't result in crushed vertebrae. The vast majority of software engineers and programmers live in a world where the calculus for balancing technical/economic tradeoffs don't involve life safety and billions of dollars of capital investment in the pans.
The domain of automobile use encompasses more variables than a website - there's no sleet over TCP/IP and broken internationalization doesn't result in crushed vertebrae. The vast majority of software engineers and programmers live in a world where the calculus for balancing technical/economic tradeoffs don't involve life safety and billions of dollars of capital investment in the pans.