> I wonder if the person asking the question would be happy to let someone do a job in his home with an uncapped budget and timeline?

The author made the claim that software engineering is fundamentally different from carpentry ("Almost everything a developer writes is unique, they have never built that particular thing before. We are not cabinet makers...")

But does that hold up? Many software projects do in fact have a similar analogue, and each house is unique and carpentry projects will thus run into unexpected snags.