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by philwelch 5970 days ago
The term "software engineer" has always been problematic to me for this reason, and a lot of real engineers agree, but among software people it's just become accepted. Whether you keep on arguing about it it mostly a matter of your own stubbornness. I'm stubborn enough about it to distinguish "software engineers" from real engineers, but I'm not stubborn enough to turn down a job just because the job title contains the term "software engineer".