[ Helping to…]

I’ve heard it called “copy-paste engineering”, or “find-and-replace” engineering.  It’s a terrible process that has invaded the habits of good engineers everywhere.

We used to have to write out the design report or project report by hand, to be typed up by someone else.  This meant that the content was original, and bespoke to that project. Nowadays, I’m pretty sure all of us in computer-land have done the ole ‘find and replace’ to produce a ‘new’ report. 

I want to be helping to fix that.  I want us to be more cognizant of the folly of doing engineering that way.