Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by just-tom on Monday June 03, 2024 @01:45AM (#40559691)

Actually I call myself a developer. I'm not that good of a programmer, but quite resourceful as a developer.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by erhaetherth on Monday June 03, 2024 @02:24AM (#40559863)

I've come to understand the difference between programmer and software engineer, but what's the difference between (software) developer and programmer?

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by surfingdino on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:14AM (#40560125)

Developers build software whereas programmers merely flick the switches on an Altair 8800 /s

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by just-tom on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @01:57AM (#40571125)

Maybe it's only in my head, but for me, programmers work 99% of the time with code, while developers also spin up servers, cicd pipelines, domain dns stuff, and more stuff that are not strictly source code.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by stef25 on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:38AM (#40560879)

Only reason I sometimes say I'm a programmer is because developer sounds like I work for an NGO

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by shafyy on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:27AM (#40561211)

Yeah, developer is much more ambiguous. Could also be a real estate developer, or a business developer (fancy word for "sales").

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