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Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them (futurism.com)
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[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 24 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Software Engineers

Oftentimes I wonder what civil or mechanical engineers think about webdevs-turned-prompt-writers calling themselves "engineers".

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Every real engineer I have ever talked to gets pissed when a key board jockey calls themselves engineer. Regardless of AI or not.

Coders arnt engineers never will be never have been. The engineer title was straight up stolen and misused by corpos and idiots to fluff up their egos. The entire term software engineer is a bullshit title for idiots who have zero respect for actual engineers or are toadies to mega corpos and sold their self respect for a bigger pay check. Prompt engineers are even worse and frankly fuck em all.

They as much engineers as a 3 year old is an engineer when building with Lincoln logs.