I mean, engineering is really problem solving, and not do we web developers solve problems. We may have made most of them ourselves, and new ones when we solve those, but we do solve problems.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

The term engineering is not about problem-solving, especially when differentiated from development. Engineering is about deliberate understanding and decision-making, about giving it an architecture, a structure.

You can develop without any structure, solving an issue, without understanding a bigger context or picture or behavior. But that's not engineering.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Engineering is the use of scientific knowledge to achieve specific goals.