Fine, but then what am I? I'm certainly not a scientist. And calling me a "programmer" is like calling an accountant a "calculator".

I design solutions to computational problems. I also happen to implement them a lot of the time, because code was trivial to implement even before LLMs. What does that make me if not an engineer? I'm open to suggestions.

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jeddy3 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Software developer?

	▲	CuriouslyC 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If someone told me I couldn't call myself an engineer and instead I had to call myself a software developer, I'd turn around and tell them I just forgot all my theoretical computer science, and of course we can do a bubble sort on the multi-terabyte database, LOL.

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bitexploder 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just work here. The label is for everyone else :)

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skydhash 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think engineering is about norms and regulations. Creating solutions for problems can be done in a very wide spectrum, but the restricted window where you try to respect books of rules is what people call engineering.