boot campers are not engineers [-2]
Eh, as long as you have a BS in it you're a Computer Scientist imo. Understanding everything from circuits, hardware, Networking and the electrical properties involved in computing is very technical stuff which gets taught to you. Then you add programming, languages, OSses and there is a ton of knowledge specific to the field that separates you from the layman or even casual learner.
Then you get into Data structures, algorithms, calculus, discrete etc. Some specialties go a bit further into other disciplines like physics and various other classical sciences
Ah yes, the barrier to being a scientist is knowing first year calculus and what a hashmap is
"Software Engineer" is a very common title. I would not call myself just 'engineer' without the 'software' prefix because 'engineer' by itself is just pretty meaningless.
“engineer” by itself means Mechanical/Chemical/Civil/etc in my opinion. Calling yourself an engineer as a software person is a bit much. [-80]
Thank you! Some devs are acting like their code review is the same as the process and responsability that in building a bridge. [-1]
Software engineer is a valid title and if you‘re working in a company where the only type of engineer that exists is a software engineer, then it makes sense to leave out the “software”. [... the entire post was too long ]
heckin' valid title
and there's way more threads of arguing if they aren't engineers then why are their titles at work software engineer
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What about the prestigious Prompt Engineers
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hmmmmmm this might be a great trolling idea. I'ma take an alt and start posting on subs like this calling myself a prompt engineer. Gonna tell people I have an associates in English.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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I'm going to be a Prompt Engineer when Coomunism wins
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lol, I don't know a single dev who can actually explain all this shit.
This isn't the 80s anymore.
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I learned all of it but I only remember a small portion of it because I never need to really use any knowledge of circuits, low level language, or networking outside of stuff like http codes.
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some of the embedded nerds probably
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nah, they're even more r-slurred than the web dev. trust me on that
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They teach it in CS degrees but I don't think many people remember it for long. We did building a simple processor out of NAND gates (showing how you'd implement a... I forget the name, binary results table thing, using a whole boatload of NAND gates), both physically using ICs and then scaling up using circuit simulation. Then we did very very basic CPU architecture, I think it was the Z80, then onto Z80 assembly.
Was the most interesting part of the course tbh
I'd still never call myself a 'software engineer' if I'd gone into programming. Programmer/Developer is fine. 'SWE' is hideously pretentious. Why do Americans love to abuse the title Engineer so badly? It's meant to really mean something.
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Software "engineers" have as much claim to the title as sanitation engineers
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Very rarely is software engineered, like a bridge or an airplane. Software develops, like a cancer
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I was a Software engineer, but now I am a Cloud Architect
inb4 reeee architects only work on buildings, yes b-word I build shit in the cloud
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what would the funniest fake job title to make "real" title holders mad be. cybersecurity sniper (looks up new exploits)? data surgeon (runs hard drive recovery tools)?
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Code Sherrif, Data Surgeon, Certified Data Nurse, Blockchain Manager, Blockchain Accountant, Software Physician, Application Pilot or Project Pilot
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there's an epidemic of r-slurred buzzwords in tech
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I completely agree, it's a serious case of buzzworditis that's infecting the industry like a rogue API spreading malware. We need to take a holistic approach to our language stack and refactor our terminology to prioritize clarity and meaningful communication. Let's pivot away from the buzzword rabbit hole and optimize our syntax for human understanding. #NoMoreBuzzwordFatigue
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Unless you have the potential to kill someone if you frick up at your job you are not an engineer
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implying the bugs i introduced in the banking app hasn't led to suicides
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a warehouse engineer is still an engineer
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Coders calling themselves engineers unironically makes me
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Seethe more, I'm more of an engineer than the average sparky slapping a few LEDs onto an Arduino board.
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The software chimp screeches from his code branches
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You would be surprised to see the bottom end of the market. I was interviewing people a couple of years ago about a developer position and it was bleak.
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I take every opportunity to remind codecels that they’re not engineers. I mean don’t get me wrong, some of the stuff at a high level can be pretty tough. Computer vision and so on. But every time I hear a JavaScript dev call himself an engineer I want to b-word slap the cute twink
The difference imo is that there’s a lot of imperfections in hardware that you can’t ignore, and that’s most of the difficulty
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Snapshots:
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archive.org
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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"Civilian engineer" is a protected title in my country extended to people who have received certain master degrees, there are some software/CS masters that grant it too.
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