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Comment by AndrewDavis

3 days ago

I've decided that titles are mostly meaningless in software. What X title means in one org means another in a different one with near zero overlap, and another title might have considerable overlap with a differently named one but viewed lowly, borderline pejoratively at another org. Eg system admin vs devops vs sre. In one org sysadmins are deploying desktop machines with no expectations they can cut code, in my old role as one I was working with Linux systems, building glue and orchestration, and when things go wrong debugging backend code written by a development team. Something far closer to the work of "devops" or "sre".

As a aside, I find your example of doctor as amusing because it's overloaded with many considering the term a synonym of physician, and the confusion that can cause with other types of doctors.