> They still hire/outsource massive swaths of the work needed to produce a movie, but they are the person held ultimately responsible.
I sort of wonder whether software engineering is just weird, in the sense that in theory a director could probably do most of the jobs in a movie production, e.g. point a camera, select cast members, acting, set construction. They would do them badly, but they would have some idea of what is involved and what they want.
Software is so iceberg-like that such equivalent direction seems impossible without a technical background.
I sort of wonder whether software engineering is just weird, in the sense that in theory a director could probably do most of the jobs in a movie production, e.g. point a camera, select cast members, acting, set construction. They would do them badly, but they would have some idea of what is involved and what they want.
Software is so iceberg-like that such equivalent direction seems impossible without a technical background.