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Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers
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Even "software engineer" is a bit sketchy. Should testers start calling themselves "Software doctors"? Lol
No, that's silly.
They should call themselves "exterminators" since they look for bugs.
But they don't actually remove the bugs 🤔
I'm ambivalent. I don't really care about titles generally, but at least software engineer clearly isn't anything else.
That said, while the term software engineer is a lost cause, I wouldn't be opposed to some comparable, regulated title where the person has to sign off on code bases and is responsible for major flaws. Obviously you wouldn't use that as a barrier for every piece of code, but as a requirement for handling personal information on a certain scale? (Obviously it would be pointless until you also regulated intentional sharing of information a hell of a lot better, but still.)
Yeah! My job is to triage, diagnose and remedy. Don't confuse the two!