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Mike P

@hrefna Personally I find the term "software engineer" quite irritating, because it's so often used to describe the process of downloading something from GitHub and then following the instructions.

Would you support a formal requirement for someone to hold particular qualifications in order to describe themselves as a "software engineer"? I would, myself, even though it would take me a few years to actually achieve those qualifications.

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Hrefna (DHC)

@FenTiger I'll note first: Formal qualifications are _very_ modern, and that having any kind of force is even more modern than that. Lots of engineering disciplines don't do anything with "sue me stamps" and to the degree they have passed any such certification they rarely use it outside of, e.g., expert witnesses (including, often, things like aerospace).

I'm not opposed per se, but the devil there is in the details: I can envision requirements I would support, but also ones I wouldn't.

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