I'm a software hacker that gets paid an engineer's salary. I use old tools (vim, terminals), like engineers use old tools (protractor, pencil), to make compara

I'm a software hacker that gets paid an engineer's salary. I use old tools (vim, terminals), like engineers use old tools (protractor, pencil), to make comparatively much larger artifacts (search products, management tools), like engineers (buildings, bridges). You're not judiciously applying the metaphor. You've only rephrased what it means to be "self-taught"; it goes without saying that we don't allow unlicensed people to engineer things. It also goes without saying that no one lives or dies by a faulty HTTP request header.