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As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone who works on making software is a developer, even people who don’t program at all. people who make art for software work in software development. A “coder” only writes code. It’s more of a task than a job. A software engineer does technical design and probably also codes.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

The reality is they all mean the same thing and are used interchangeably in different companies.