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		zx8080 on March 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Call yourself titles > If you start playing the piano, you’re a pianist > You don’t need to do something for years, or even professionally, to call yourself by your new title. Wow. Okay. But please don't call youself a Senior Software Engineer if you've just started programming.

MrVandemar on March 26, 2023 [–]

> But please don't call youself a Senior Software Engineer if you've just started programming.

I think that's crossing the line into Dunning-Kruger territory.

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