[agentultra]

I'm a little sheepish about using it around the engineers in my life because I know I'm not legally liable and held accountable to the same standards they are when I make a mistake in the software I ship.

I like to think I take a certain amount of rigor in the choices of tools and processes and design philosophy that reduces the amount and impact of bugs... but if we get a customer complaint about our product we don't generally issue a recall and lose millions of dollars.

It's not that I spend any less time learning theory and application and it's certainly no less challenging in some cases than even mechanical engineering but... it's a liability thing.

Also, I don't write software for aerospace control systems.

I've seen companies advertise "software engineer," positions whose primary responsibilities included running a fleet of Wordpress blogs.

Just a matter of perspective I guess.

[Dewie]

Like I said: inferiority complex.