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I basically only use Fable, and no it isn’t. Coding isn’t engineering.

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"Software Engineer" is a thing.

Not here in Canada, nor many places where Engineer is a protected term.

Yes here in Canada, plenty of Software Engineers, P.Eng

Do you think software engineers just write code or something?

I would bet good money that the vast majority of people who have some variety of "software engineer" as their job title mostly just write code, yes

The concept of software engineer is so watered down at this point it often barely resembles engineering at all

In Canada engineering is a regulated term and if you aren’t licensed you can get in serious trouble calling yourself one.

source: I am licensed.

Yeah. My job title at work is technically Software Engineer and it makes me a little uneasy because I am not licensed

But I don't call myself an engineer at all. I'm a software developer through and through. My employer calls me an engineer for some reason through

Yes it is. It'll write a better doc at any level for any task you may do. If you're not able to see that, you just don't know how to give the context right.

Claude writes technical word salad that people hate reading. It’s writing docs nobody looks at and nobody cares about.

Technical writing is a skill just like any other form of writing and if you’re bad at it that’s on you.

People despise AI slop novels and they also despise AI slop technical documents.

And even with that fable would be more capable than you. You just don't know how to harness it with the right context maybe.

I can't imagine what level of monkeys you've been working with when you can't even imagine a human writing better docs than Claude. Disturbing, frankly.

You need to take a step back from the "it's always better than you" because you're making objectively false statements based on delusion.

> You just don't know how to harness it with the right context maybe.

Him placing this at the end of all his statements is just screaming, it takes an engineer to get a nicely engineered product. admitting defeat in his own statements over and over, kinda funny.

Honestly it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.

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