I think the author misses the point of their own story, this isn&#x27;t an software vs regular engineer thing, this is a problems with monotonous static jobs.<p>His friends job is to  fit one small body panel on the chassis, over and over again.
So when he gets one that doesn&#x27;t fit his instinct is to make it fit as opposed to asking why it doesn&#x27;t. His job isn&#x27;t questions, his job is to fit it on.<p>When he was working in his own body shop this hacker wouldn&#x27;t have stood for his tools putting out misprints and mistakes, but then his job was managing the whole shop.<p>Static monotony gets static monotonous thinking.