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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by phillipamann on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:06AM (#17236550)
I think about this a lot. With the rise of cloud computing, I wonder if what I am doing is even programming. I even searched Stack Overflow recently to see if working on complex configurations counts as programming or not. There obviously wasn't consensus.

I saved this thread to "read later" in the hope that I can identify how to get into a position where I am working on interesting problems but more or less, I implement business logic. Of course, it's still slightly interesting when you think about the scale or what I actually created but it's not technically interesting.

Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by solarkraft on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:13AM (#17236589)
I'm not sure about "Software Engineering", but "Programming" to me sounds like making a computer run something to your liking, which would include configuring it.
Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by bootsz on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:39AM (#17237064)
IMO the problem is that today we generally still only have one name for all of these jobs (software dev|engineer) when it reality we probably need 2 or 3. It makes planning one's career and searching for the right job very difficult.
Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by hawski on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:29AM (#17236676)
Code is data is code. Sometimes in a declarative and a high level language.
Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by MartinCron on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:42AM (#17238731)
Programming, testing, debugging, tuning, and yes, configuring are all parts of the umbrella that I like to call “Professional Software Development”.

All valuable skills, worth respecting and improving.