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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by daemin on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:53AM (#48032329)
People that manage AI agents are not engineers as they do no engineering but are instead just supervisors.
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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by terpimost on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @04:42AM (#48033809)
What is the difference between supervisor and an architect in tech products area?
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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by snapcaster on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:53AM (#48036281)
only dorks care this much about being an "engineer" or "artist". Who gives a shit if misanthropes on websites consider you a real engineer?
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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by runako on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @10:08AM (#48036466)
Early in my career, people said this about programmers who (weakly) insisted on using assemblers.

Then, about people using high-level languages like C.

Then, about people using C++.

Then, about people using "toy"/"scripting" languages like PHP and Python.

About people who use ORMs instead of writing SQL directly.

About people who use JavaScript ("not a real programming language" was the dis).

People used to argue how it was the mark of a tourist to use anything more visual than Emacs.

This slight won't stick, nobody cares, and it might end up sounding stupid later. You can't usefully insult a professional engineer in 2026 by pointing out that they haven't memorized ASCII or the Arm instruction set.

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