There is one fundamental difference between software engineering and any other type of engineering. It's that the feedback of the rules that govern the outcome is instant and received by multiple human senses.
If you hit something with a hammer the result and response is instant. You can feel the nail went deeper before you look, you can hear you hit the head correctly before you think about it. You can feel the vibration and hear and feel and see the wood crack before you could read a sentence about it.
You don't have to compile the hammer and run the hit and read the result from the screen and if you logged the right things you will see something about the result based on what you logged but not quite everything because that would be an unintelligible mess. If you compiled the right version of hammer that is.
You don't even know for sure if you are holding a hammer. Of course that's not called a hammer but a unique tool you downloaded because they said it is the new best tool of the year - and there are several famous new tools every year. Though you cannot be sure if that tool helps in your job until you try to use it as you don't know if you are using a hammer or an excavation machine and both can be suitable for the task one being slightly bigger though.
If you hit something with a hammer the result and response is instant. You can feel the nail went deeper before you look, you can hear you hit the head correctly before you think about it. You can feel the vibration and hear and feel and see the wood crack before you could read a sentence about it.
You don't have to compile the hammer and run the hit and read the result from the screen and if you logged the right things you will see something about the result based on what you logged but not quite everything because that would be an unintelligible mess. If you compiled the right version of hammer that is.
You don't even know for sure if you are holding a hammer. Of course that's not called a hammer but a unique tool you downloaded because they said it is the new best tool of the year - and there are several famous new tools every year. Though you cannot be sure if that tool helps in your job until you try to use it as you don't know if you are using a hammer or an excavation machine and both can be suitable for the task one being slightly bigger though.