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Of course they wouldn't, most people who consider themselves engineers aren't engineers. Just look at the job market right now.

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There is no such thing as a Software Engineer.

Its just as much as an ego trip...as the Principal Engineers that roam around here, after they survived three layoffs and outputted front end code for six years straight at a FAANG...

Prove me wrong...

There is a such thing as employees that build things with software that are above average in (1) has good instincts about building maintainable systems (2) IQ. The name you give this employe isn't that important to me.

"Margaret Hamilton popularized and coined the term 'software engineering' to give the discipline the same legitimacy as hardware engineering".

But oh well, who was she, just the engineer who wrote the software for the Apollo 11. Probably she had no idea what she was talking about.

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That's known as the argument from authority fallacy.

That's new to me, I didn't know she coined the term. She's the first true "software engineer" then, I suppose. I remember her from that historic photo where she's standing next to a pile of code printed out, a stack talled than her.

Not to be confused with Margaret Hamilton the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz.

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