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[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Yeah, software engineers are the sanitation engineers of programming. Source: am one

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

All these job titles don't really have a formal definition. Software engineer = programmer = software developer. Computer scientist sure does sound fancy though. There's no committee that will say "actually you're doing too much math to be a developer sorry." We all do the code-y thing. Businesses seem to pick one at random based on seniority. I just call myself whatever my most recent job title was.

Your industry will affect your specialisation and skills much more than anything else.

- Software Engineer (Maths)

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You’re taking my comment a little too seriously. I just know that what I do is essentially playing with other people’s legos, to make a CRUD app, to show my industry’s equivalent of cat pictures. I leave the heavy math and theory to the real computer scientists.

[–] bruh@nord.pub 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

sounds reasonable to me! why reinvent the wheel right?

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

I just use wheels that will others have built and call it my car 😎

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