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Confidence in the Solution

• C: But you can give an argument why your program solves the general problem.
  • SE: (again demonstrates the operation of the program on a particular example run).
• C: At least you've followed a design methodology which is trusted to yield correct solutions for this kind of problems.
  • SE: Actually, I've just written the code from scratch.
• C: So how can I rely on your solution?

Is this engineering?