问HN：现在每个人都是工程师了吗？
市场营销工程师为市场营销人员服务，设计工程师为设计师服务，卫生工程师为清洁工服务——按照这个逻辑，收银工程师应该是下一个为结账时为你服务的人而设的职位。
这种头衔膨胀是怎么回事？为什么仅仅因为你编写软件就要称自己为工程师？在我看来，工程师是那些构建事物并对其承担全部责任的人——设计一座桥梁，数千条生命掌握在你手中，制造飞机引擎，过滤城市的水源。这不是在机器上按键。
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Marketing engineer for marketing people, design engineer for designers, sanitation engineer for janitors — so by that logic, cashier engineer would be next for the people who ring you up at checkout.
What is up with this title inflation? Why call yourself an engineer just because you write software? To me, engineers are people who build things and take full responsibility for them — designing a bridge where thousands of lives are in your hands, building an airplane engine, filtering a city's water supply. Not pressing keys on a machine.