The way I think of it is "wizardry" has good initial velocity (as it relates to change), but velocity decreases with time, whereas for "engineering" velocity is terrible at first (initial investment), improves a bit over time, but most importantly it settles to a constant level.
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The way I think of it is "wizardry" has good initial velocity (as it relates to change), but velocity decreases with time, whereas for "engineering" velocity is terrible at first (initial investment), improves a bit over time, but most importantly it settles to a constant level.
Engineering is O(log(n)), wizardry is O(N*N).
That may be true, but immediately makes me think of Rich Hickey's "constants matter".
Mostly if they're different order of magnitude, and they're not.