alt Hacker News> by decomposing problems and identifying optional solutions and weighing the solutions based on various risks, trade-offs and tolerances.
This is how all people solve problems. Now everyone are not great at all parts, but this really is what anyone does.
Surely the title ”engineer” means something else?
Ideally, but this is not at all taught or incentivized in (American) schools. We're taught to "hack it" which means getting to a solution without much regard for how we got there.