• MrMamiya@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Ancient engineers: let’s make it work.

    Modern engineers: we need to make sure it breaks at approximately 36 months to ensure low ability to claim warranty while also ensuring the customer believes it could have been a fluke.

    Or, roughly translated into engineer speak…”anyone can build an aqueduct, it takes skill to build an aqueduct using the minimum amount of material required”.

    • yimby@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I’ve never met an engineer who wanted to intentionally design products to break.

      The beancounters on the other hand…