{"id":18718,"date":"2025-08-08T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/?p=18718"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:23:48","slug":"coder-developer-or-engineer-of-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/post\/18718","title":{"rendered":"Coder, Developer, or Engineer of Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-my-spot wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/cinema?v=fcjBfSiyI0k\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Coder vs Developer vs Software Engineer, What\u2019s the Difference? \u26f5 BestBanana English\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/fcjBfSiyI0k\/hqdefault.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 800px; max-height: 800px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI will supplant coders, but not software developers, as the latter possess a sense of ownership over the software and work on it from the perspective of end users as human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"software-engineer-and-principles\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Software Engineer and Principles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software engineers are the scientific version of software developers. They address more abstract architectural problems through the lens of engineering principles--almost as if they were building a rocket--including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Planning and Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efficiency and Optimization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reliability and Risk Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scalability and Maintainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only a full-stack programmer can be a software engineer because, by definition, they understand all the parts that work together to deliver the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"jack-of-all-trades-bad\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jack of all trades, Bad?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do note that software engineers know much less than developers in certain parts of a software project. That\u2019s why we need both engineers and developers in all kinds of modern constructions, whether we are talking about bridges, skyscrapers, or software systems. I love how this Reddit line articulates it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One could say that while software engineering goes wide, software development goes deep.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ref. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SoftwareEngineering\/comments\/uclqgl\/difference_between_a_software_engineer_vs\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SoftwareEngineering\/comments\/uclqgl\/difference_between_a_software_engineer_vs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI will supplant coders, but not software developers, as the latter possess a sense of ownership over the software and work on it from the perspective of end users as human beings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[16,72],"class_list":["post-18718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellanea","tag-done","tag-my_thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18720,"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions\/18720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bestbanana.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}