Old, but fun read that argues that today’s programmers are not like typical Engineers and shouldn’t really call themselves that as Engineering requires certification, is subject to government regulation, bear a burden to the public, etc.

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    7 days ago

    I think software is still engineered.

    Perhaps as a compromise, non-software engineers could call themselves hardware engineers, or hard engineers for short.

    Should bridge that gap in terminology. And ofc assumption should be “engineer” means “hard engineer” and software engineers should always specify they’re software engineers and not call themselves just engineers.