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Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?

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Post by good1790 »

appreciatorBus wrote: post #2

Same as it ever was... In the 1700's, "executive" referred to a person or group holding supreme legal power In the 1900's, "executive" described high ranking business people. In the 2000's, a junior sales rep, 3 months out of high school, will be given the title of account executive.

has a big difference though ... executioner is NOT a "human" anymore

Re: Ask HN: Is Everyone an Engineer Now?

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Post by bohdanstefaniuk »

> To me, engineers are people who build things and take full responsibility for them

But you can apply the same logic for the software engineer, you take responsibility for the project you develop and lead. You take responsibility to make it work properly in different environments and load. What about software engineers who build software for the planes or rockets?

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