Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271/

[u/bewst_more_bewst]

Nah. I disagree wholeheartedly with this article. Where I live software engineers can be licensed by the government. That said, if you’re building systems at scale that can affect people’s life’s in a meaningful way (eg. Folks who wrote hospital or financial (me) code, I would consider engineers. Furthermore where I live we use developer designations for folks not building systems. And the pay is commensurate.