_MusicJunkie@beehaw.orgtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio
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7 months agoIn the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.
In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.
No worse than all the tech startup names tbh.