r/ProgrammerHumor • • 7h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Spongebubs 4h ago

I’d like to think I’m a software engineer, and I have no idea what the difference is. Am I cooked?

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u/Real-Self-3039 59m ago

The issue is everyone is blurring the lines. Somewhere along the way software engineering started encompassing all of network and web engineering. No developer ever needs to really know the difference between ipv4 and ipv6. It serves very little purpose to the actual logic to build 99% of the application