Construction is not complex
This fact will not be apparent until the customer sees the first cut of the software. On the other hand, someone who wants software written can sit down with a software architect and produce a “specification” that, in truth, does not adequately describe what the customer wants.
Construction is not as complex only because we only deal with the construction materials and techniques at human scale. To allow ordinary people, in constrast to only programmers, to construct interior design software, repair, and extend programs, writing programs, fixing bugs, and adding features to programs should probably be more like construction: not as complex. Of course, programming is totally out of the question for most people. The biggest problem is that we are more or less hopeless in fixing the programs ourselves.
