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I notice that developers do you really like to mention quite often that they are "engineers".

• bdcravens 7y ago
  There's two ways to evaluate the comment. Truth is almost none of us are "engineers". (meaning a very strict discipline, often with licensing, and with very real consequences for failure after you sign off on something) I'm fine with that, but I'm also fine with the colloquialism of "software engineer" (same way I'm ok with "crypto" meaning "cryptocurrency" if we all have an understood context) However, I usually interpret comments like this to suggest things like the backend is "real software engineering", which while being literally incorrect, it's also a very narrow view of our craft. I think the pushback is similar to the traditional ops folks pushing back against "devops" or the way people make the same, predictably pedantic comments about any "serverless" article: it represents an encroaching on their expertise.