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by KnobbleMcKnees 1078 days ago
People who have not studied and been given that distinction in engineering going on to call themselves engineers is the reason the term is overloaded.

I've always assumed there's a near 100% overlap between people using the term wrongly to describe any programming activity, and people complaining that it has no meaning or is self-aggrandisement