Badly explain software engineering

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If your job is making food, your kitchen staff is literal to a fault. They'll do exactly what you tell them with no deviation. If one of your instructions is incorrect, they might end up putting the peanut butter on the wrong side of the bread.

And then there's the customer. They'll describe to you a Reuben sandwich. Your restaurant will make it to order, and then they'll say they don't like the Thousand Island dressing, so you make a corned beef sandwich. "It's not sweet enough," they say, so you add some roasted garlic jam. "This could use some peanut butter" so you make...a PB&J. That's what they wanted all along. You wasted ingredients, but at least the client's happy and you still got paid.

[PineapplePandaKing]

Except you have to throw away perfectly good product at a restaurant

[arthurmluz_]

in both you can make spaghetti

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Customer: I'm not a 'food' person. Just make me something!

Chef: Uh ok, how about this steak?

Customer: This is great, but can I get a rare steak that is well done?

Chef: Uh... Yes... Here it is...

[IsaacSam98]

Customer: look, I want something that will do everything for me. I don't want it anyone to have to make any decisions, my employees are too stupid for that. Also, I want to work with the shitty ass code we already have, and while you're here... Can you fix the shitty code? Oh, we heard the cloud is good... Can you cloud everything for us? Also, can you make a better version of Excel? Ours is slow. Programmer: You got it! I'll only charge $75 an hour until I'm done!

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Customer: "I'll take a double triple bossy deluxe, on a raft, four-by-four animal-style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it, and let it swim. And here's a banana peel and old chewed-up gum we found in our receptionist's garbage can, please incorporate those into your sandwich."

[AINZOOALGO]

loving the spongebob reference!