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Re:We will never have enough software developers (2020) by _gabe_ on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:56PM (#31745969)
> most should not even be called engineers, they’re coders or developers and on the same level as a lab technician to me

I'm a programmer and I 100% agree with this statement. I never tell anyone that I'm a software engineer even though that is my job title, I am a programmer. It annoys me to no end that we keep diluting language like this and devaluing the meaning of these terms. An engineer is held to a much higher standard than any web developer ever will be.

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Re:We will never have enough software developers (2020) by GFischer on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:26AM (#31779616)
In some countries, like mine (Uruguay), it's illegal to call yourself an engineer unless you are one, but the local university does hand software engineer titles.

I call myself a senior software developer (I'm not an engineer, I did went to university but didn't graduate from that career, switched to an Information Systems degree instead).

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