All these job titles don't really have a formal definition. Software engineer = programmer = software developer. Computer scientist sure does sound fancy though. There's no committee that will say "actually you're doing too much math to be a developer sorry." We all do the code-y thing. Businesses seem to pick one at random based on seniority. I just call myself whatever my most recent job title was.

Your industry will affect your specialisation and skills much more than anything else.

- Software Engineer (Maths)

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I don't even go that's far. I "work in IT". Enough for 99% of social interactions / official forms.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You’re taking my comment a little too seriously. I just know that what I do is essentially playing with other people’s legos, to make a CRUD app, to show my industry’s equivalent of cat pictures. I leave the heavy math and theory to the real computer scientists.

[–] bruh@nord.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sounds reasonable to me! why reinvent the wheel right?

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I just use wheels that will others have built and call it my car 😎

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I couldn't tell how serious you were being, sorry. Some people get weird about this specific topic and gatekeep the labels lol