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Do you think other engineers think this way? Your bridge is only 20 yards over a creek, you're not a civil engineer? I'm sure the complexity, depth, and expect

• cardosof 5y ago
  This also applies to other fields - medicine for instance.
• Hermitian909 5y ago
  Based on civil engineers I know I think it's more likely they'd simply consider the engineer making 20 yard bridges more junior, but doing similar work. As I understand it there aren't the same difference in kind that I'm describing here.
• smnrchrds 5y ago
  In my field (mechanical), there are engineers, technicians, and drafters. Each of the above require more education than the next, and is paid better than the next. Someone who only does drafting work will not describe their job as engineering, nor are companies likely to ask engineers to do drafting because it doesn't make sense to pay someone an engineer's salary for that kind of work. Basic static site seems like drafting. A CRUD app or WordPress site or similar between drafting and technician.
  • true_religion 5y ago
    In a way, software development is more like writing than it is engineering. There is a continuum between people who author crud apps and people who author compilers, but you can go from one to the other simply by having industry experience and access to good books.
    • cutemonster 5y ago
      Wordpress sites is more like painting and writing. And physics engines and distributed databases and creating Wireguard is software engineering. I think there are hundreds of times more people doing the former, than the later
• goodpoint 5y ago
  > Do you think other engineers think this way? Yes, and that's correct. If your skills go as far as building a 1-meter tall wall around a patio you are not an engineer.