> I just assume their work thus far has consisted of linking together pre-existing building blocks to make web or mobile apps, rather than anything completely original or state-of-the-art.
...otherwise known as the vast, vast majority of work in "most software engineering roles", as the parent commenter mentioned.
They didn't say CS knowledge was unimportant. They said it wasn't directly used in most SWE work. That's entirely accurate. They did not comment on whether the products of computer science are involved in most software engineering (of course they are, but I don't need to remember A* to use a graph database). They did not comment on (rare) roles in which that knowledge is required to make groundbreaking advancements.
...otherwise known as the vast, vast majority of work in "most software engineering roles", as the parent commenter mentioned.
They didn't say CS knowledge was unimportant. They said it wasn't directly used in most SWE work. That's entirely accurate. They did not comment on whether the products of computer science are involved in most software engineering (of course they are, but I don't need to remember A* to use a graph database). They did not comment on (rare) roles in which that knowledge is required to make groundbreaking advancements.