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Just wait to you hear what some traditional capital “E” engineers (meaning licensed) think about programmers usurping the title “engineer”.

It’s been a joke for decades and decades that “engineer” is used to church up any job, including “domestic engineering” (housekeeping/homemaking).




Sanitation engineer and custodial engineer are older than I am, as well.




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