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Re:Ask HN: Should everyone who work on software be called an... by jimmyvalmer on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:12AM (#27906535)
This label would seem obtuse twenty years ago. Traditionally, engineers require an empirical understanding of physical phenomena, e.g., fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, etc.

In the Venn diagram, the intersection of "engineer" and "coder" circles is large, but the "coder" circle is 100x bigger than the "engineer" circle.

Re:Ask HN: Should everyone who work on software be called an... by jstx1 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:46PM (#27908632)
> This label would seem obtuse twenty years ago.

It's been around since at least the 1960s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering#History