But you can be considered a software engineer by your peers, usually demonstrated through qualification and professional experience. The differentiation I was

But you can be considered a software engineer by your peers, usually demonstrated through qualification and professional experience. The differentiation I was trying to draw with those two words is: I don't know if they're actually working software developers or people who just hack on code in their free time. If they're professional devs, that's obviously much worse. Honestly, not the part of that I was expecting to have to discuss.