phil hunt wrote:

"software engineer" and "programmer" are different words for the
same job.

Although he seems to be making a hard-and-fast distinction which is not
universally made or uniformly recognized by certain terminology, surely
you would recognize that there is a difference between higher level
design considerations and low-level implementation tasks. On small
projects, especially personal or collaborative open source ones, they'll
be done by the same person(s) and probably not explicitly distinguished
in a task list (concrete or hypothetical), but on large projects the
distinction becomes more important. Someone with the title Senior
Computer Scientist is probably going to be doing a lot more design the
gruntwork, and the reverse is true of someone with the title Member of
Technical Staff.

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