you can tell archimedes was an engineer because for example, with regard to levers, he proposes the perfect solution, it's just impossible
Every engineering solution to anything is either:
- Perfect but impossible
- Technically entirely feasible but dogshit that bends physics into a pretzel
The best engineers in the world know how to do both simultaneously. Archimedes is the ur-example.
the best engineers i know accidentally do impossible things because no one thought to tell them it was hard
And thus we demonstrate that "software engineer" as a job title is bogus because the only people doing engineering in software are overworked games developers
