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by hombre_fatal 291 days ago
I think we should we put this title-based distinction to rest.

Whether you call yourself an engineer, developer, programmer, or even a coder is mostly a localized thing, not an evaluation of expertise.

We're confusing everyone when we pretend a title reflects how good we are at the craft, especially titles we already use to refer to ourselves without judgement. At least use script kiddie or something.

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In my local world: Writing code to specification is programming. Writing the specification is engineering.