[nerdsniper]

Words have meaning, but we can still argue over the meaning of words. For example, I believe that engineering necessarily involves calculus, and if you’re not doing calculus ever in your job, you’re more of a “technician” or “specialist” than an engineer. I have a degree in chemical engineering, and have been titled “chemical engineer”, “controls engineer”, “electrical engineer”, and “field engineer”. Currently my title is “software engineer”.

But I believe the last time I did any engineering was when my title was “Intern” - none of my jobs since then have required actual rigorous engineering and could have been done equally well or better by someone without an engineering degree.

I currently believe “software developer” would be a more appropriate title for me.

[alganet]

I held "software engineer" and even "researcher" titles (btw I don't even have a degree). These mean nothing.

I am a troubleshooter, and my troubleshooting skills are measured by how much trouble I can shoot.

Not how much trouble I will be able to shoot once my tool is sharpened, not how much trouble I could shoot _in principle_, nothing of this nonsense. Trouble I can shoot now.

Users who mostly use LLM prompting are currently very limited in the amount of trouble they can shoot. Sometimes, it creates more problems than it solves.

Once that changes, we can open the gates. Show me the works.

[bravetraveler]

In this spirit, I offer: SRE is less engineering and more controlled opposition