Bigotry. This is a compositional error fallacy involving people as the class.
Redefinition fallacy (engineer<->quality). There are crappy engineers and there are great engineers. A good example crappy engineering was the original Tacoma Narrows bridge, now at the bottom of Puget Sound. You know, the one they called 'Galloping Gertie'? Another one was switching the insulating foam on the fuel tanks for the space shuttle to a more 'environmental friendly' variety, and killing the Columbia as a result.
There are programmers, and there are software engineers. There are some great programmers, and there are some great software engineers. There are lousy ones too.
Software engineers are part of an engineering team that design, build, and program sequencing systems for many uses. There are systems that make your paper, your computer, city water suppies, treat city sewage, fly spacecraft, fly aircraft, run your car engine, run life support systems in hospitals, clinics, and in space.
So that AED that saved someone's life is a crappy product?? That's something built by software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers, dude.
That GPS system you and your aircraft navigate by? Same thing, dude. Yes, it's a life critical system. Failure can lead an aircraft into a mountainside. It can leave a ship lost at sea with insufficient supplies on board. It can leave a polar expedition quite lost. They can't use a compass or even the stars.
EVERY SINGLE aircraft that flies on instruments at all depends on those software engineers, dude. They are the ones that built those radios, those navigation beacons, the GPS system, even the system controlling the lights on the runway.
