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> Your comment seems pretty elitist. It's clearly implying that Software Engineers aren't real engineers.

The guidelines say that we should respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

The following quote could easily be interpreted as viewing software engineering as a subcategory of engineering:

> most of the items on this list seem broadly applicable to different types of engineers

Given that interpretation, it seems more like they expected an article like this to be about software-specific concepts.