> software engineering should also be respected rather than commoditized.
I am not so sure anymore. When anyone who has done six weeks in a boot camp can call themselves a software engineer, the semantics of the word are lost.
> That sucks, because the skills of a truly good software engineer are also quite important.
The best people? They are valued and known to be valuable. For example, there is a guy in my company who works remote from the midwest. He is truly amazing. When he interviewed me, I quickly got the feeling that his machine learning skills were top notch. BUT, when I work with him, I realize that he is truly phenomenal. He can write code up and down the abstraction ladder. Good, solid fucking code. Hell, he can double up as an SRE and fix shit when he wants to. Sure, he is a "machine learning engineer". But he is much much more than just that title.
I am not so sure anymore. When anyone who has done six weeks in a boot camp can call themselves a software engineer, the semantics of the word are lost.
> That sucks, because the skills of a truly good software engineer are also quite important.
The best people? They are valued and known to be valuable. For example, there is a guy in my company who works remote from the midwest. He is truly amazing. When he interviewed me, I quickly got the feeling that his machine learning skills were top notch. BUT, when I work with him, I realize that he is truly phenomenal. He can write code up and down the abstraction ladder. Good, solid fucking code. Hell, he can double up as an SRE and fix shit when he wants to. Sure, he is a "machine learning engineer". But he is much much more than just that title.