<p><pre><code>    Webdevs calling themselves engineers is an insult to 
    the amount of work and effort that I&#x27;ve put in to get 
    where I am now
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1. &quot;web dev&quot; is nebulous. At what part of the stack does it cease to be &quot;web dev?&quot;<p>2. Definition of engineer:<p><pre><code>    &quot;An engineer is a practitioner of engineering, 
    concerned with applying scientific knowledge, 
    mathematics, and ingenuity to develop solutions for 
    technical, societal and commercial problems.&quot;
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Your statements misunderstand the definition of an engineer and devalue the accomplishments of people who apply math, science, and ingenuity to [animate things on websites] [make a website load in requisite time] [bend the constraints set by the browser to achieve certain objectives] [...insert other <i>software engineering</i> tasks].<p>3. It sounds to me that you feel hurt over credentials. What you are projecting: &quot;I worked hard for this thing and I perceive that you are devaluing it.&quot; My response is, credentials are different in software engineering, sorry. And nobody is devaluing your mechanical engineering degree here; if it&#x27;s something in your field that is valuable, that&#x27;s good for you.<p>But mechanical engineering isn&#x27;t software engineering, and you can&#x27;t say x isn&#x27;t engineering, you have to understand what the accepted definition is.