Re:Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015)
by ksec on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:59AM
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Thank You. And I am glad this topic got bought up once again.
I did Computer Engineering in EE, and I think there are much more Engineering involves in that doing very low level, direct to hardware and Firmware stuff.
But to me anything above OS is purely Software Writer, especially on the web. I remember DHH said something similar in one of his talk. It is more like you don't really know how it works, but it works and that is ok. No one bother about writing Spec anymore, mainly because your spec changes in the mid week. You don't "design" before you code.
And these software engineers gets to be paid a lot higher than other engineers in different fields. You get to be Engineers within 3 months of a BootCamp.
I did Computer Engineering in EE, and I think there are much more Engineering involves in that doing very low level, direct to hardware and Firmware stuff.
But to me anything above OS is purely Software Writer, especially on the web. I remember DHH said something similar in one of his talk. It is more like you don't really know how it works, but it works and that is ok. No one bother about writing Spec anymore, mainly because your spec changes in the mid week. You don't "design" before you code.
And these software engineers gets to be paid a lot higher than other engineers in different fields. You get to be Engineers within 3 months of a BootCamp.