"are software engineers Real Engineers or not" is a pointless distraction. software engineers who don't know how to deal with guilt love to self-flagellate with it and other than that there's no basis in reality for that discourse. do something useful instead
@whitequark this is a great series of blog posts where the author actually talks to a bunch of people who switched to software from other engineering fields and concludes that software engineering is in fact engineering:
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here.
I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.
✧✦Catherine✦✧
Russ Garrett