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CivBasetoday at 1:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

Fine, but then what am I? I'm certainly not a scientist. And calling me a "programmer" is like calling an accountant a "calculator".

I design solutions to computational problems. I also happen to implement them a lot of the time, because code was trivial to implement even before LLMs. What does that make me if not an engineer? I'm open to suggestions.


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jeddy3today at 1:08 PM

Software developer?

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bitexplodertoday at 1:07 PM

I just work here. The label is for everyone else :)

skydhashtoday at 1:29 PM

I think engineering is about norms and regulations. Creating solutions for problems can be done in a very wide spectrum, but the restricted window where you try to respect books of rules is what people call engineering.