This is a new satire site, right? These days it's getting harder and harder to differentiate between reality and fiction in tech. The rest of their posts are pretty much spot on.

Funny enough, I probably did more software engineering as a web dev than I did as a software engineer at some companies.

In the UK, at least, the only difference typically between a web developer and a software engineer is £15-20k in salary. Frankly, we're all software engineers...

The only real software engineer anymore is Linus Torvalds, everyone else stands on the shoulders of giants.

they should also ban web developers who refer to themselves as ninjas, especially code ninjas

I have a CS Masters degree and it says engineer on it.

can we ban web developers who call themselves "developers"?

also php programmers who call themselves anything?

I mean who cares? But also why? My old job title was "software engineer" and I just did web dev.

Honestly, nobody should call themselves an engineer unless they literally drive trains for a living.

I mean, engineering is really problem solving, and not do we web developers solve problems. We may have made most of them ourselves, and new ones when we solve those, but we do solve problems.

As long as they don't start building tunnels under their house because they're an 'engineer'...

As a non-software engineer, feels weird that they're making this distinction.

I don't have much to do with engines either.

I take engineer to mean: designs stuff that does some task, involving SOME kind of calculation.

Visual designer: not an engineer

Piping designer: not an engineer (although this one felt weird, that's what the piping designer corrected me to say, so)

Chemical engineer: ya

Mechanical engineer: yeah

Software engineer: totally different flavour, but still yeah

Language is what we want it to be.

Web designers presumably still need to script things, I reckon that counts 👍

I get this is satire but people truly believe this. Web devs literally create software that runs nearly every facet of modern life.

Now this is the kind of 'news' I'd like to see posted on hackernews just to read their techbro shit takes.