Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Hi, if you’re a snob about who can and who cannot call themselves an “engineer,” I have some bad news for you https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1080571725576843264 …

The word “engineer” is really, now, what it always should have been: just a marker indicating how you, personally, think about your job.

For me, “engineer” means knowing that all decisions are tradeoffs. It means considering both upsides & downsides of each technical choice, and doing so with explicit consideration of the larger system context.

My understanding is that the term (for software specifically) was originally introduced as an attempt to get developers to recognize the responsibility of the impact their choices/mistakes could have on folks lives. A bad bug in software can destroy lives as much as a bridge

100% agree that the term means different things to different people and that's completely ok.

I personally really like that definition though. Even for folks just putting spreadsheets on the internet, if you store passwords insecurely and have a data breach, you can severely fuck up someones life. A title isn't the greatest way to get folks to realize that, but 1/2