this is a good tweet and is a distinction I didn't properly understand until several years into my working career. I was calling myself a software engineer long before I deserved to.
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me too, but i was pressured into it by a boss who hoped that calling me that would encourage me to be one instead of a coder so i don't feel bad
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Don't worry, the fact that the system we live in is massively interdependent all but guarantees you will write something that kills people if it breaks eventually.
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probably the sensible response is write guidance software for smart bombs so that your software kills people even when it's working perfectly
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most software isn't a life-or-death thing though. the bridge engineering analogy shouldn't be taken too literally.
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to be fair, it was an unimpressive amount of money and he was really in it for the hate.
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I know right? after knowing that guy I completely abandoned the hypothesis that money is what corrupts people.
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I mean, maybe really a whole lot of money, for the right kind of person. Clearly there's other stuff that matters a lot though. In his particular case it was because of spending his formative years fighting wars in Israel.
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