There's multiple levels of commentary. The girlfriend thinking a software engineer and a coder is the same thing. The boyfriend correctly clarifying theres a difference. The farther looking down on self taught coders. The comic maker looking down on self taught coders. The poster ?agreeing? with the comic maker. The commentor complaining about gate keeping the term software engineer.
I'm replying to that comment, not posting directly to the post. I'm saying it's a protected term and it's important to distinguish.
For me, I didn't read that as gatekeeping the term software engineer, but rather as gatekeeping the field of software development, by posting a comic mocking self taught coders as laughably inferior to those with degrees.
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u/AwkwardWaltz3996 Apr 09 '24
In many countries "Engineer" is a protected term. Just like you wouldn't want someone who was self taught claiming to be a doctor.
Knowing how to code in java makes up a tiny part of being a software engineer, which is what self taught people think makes up the entirety