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doginasuit • today at 12:50 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

And gate-kept by just as many. I wonder what she'd take more issue with. My understanding is she wanted to elevate people who work on software, not draw a line around it.


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Dylan16807 • today at 4:32 AM

If I had the option I would prefer the term "engineer" be gatekept.

Terminology can help elevate something that's often overlooked, but if every programmer gets called a "software engineer" there's no way to distinguish the special stuff.

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