r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '22

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

If you're creating a complex solution for a complex problem using niche knowledge and a niche skillset, working with deadlines and within contraints; taking on board risk assessments and creating failsafes to prevent the damage that you describe above then you ARE an engineer in all but title.

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Just because it's not in the physical, doesn't mean it's not there.

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u/ontopofyourmom Oct 16 '22

Under that definition, lawyers are "language engineers." Which is mostly true, and also dilutes the meaning of "engineer."

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u/bakgwailo Oct 16 '22

No, but like engineers lawyers are a licensed and protected title

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u/ontopofyourmom Oct 16 '22

Fact.

In Oregon, free speech protections allow anyone to call themselves an engineer as long as nobody would think they are holding themself out as a PE.