[PartiallyTyped]

You could consider it as applied science in that we are dealing with CPUs, we do benchmarks, we build models of things ... but this isn't work that everyone does.

I wouldn't call most SWE work close to applied math or logic. Very few people get to deal with things that are math-adjacent or do applied math in general. Many things are just .. plumbing data.

[Antoniocl]

I agree that for people who do that type of work, it's engineering

For a typical fullstack dev building views, CRUDs, and simple DB schemas, less so

And you're probably right that most SWEs don't deal with math-adjacent things.

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And just to be clear, none of what I'm saying is a value-statement on the types of work different "software engineers" do. It's just a question of categories, which I view as separate from utility