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		kapp_in_life on June 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Work Hard Software engineer is a much more common job title now than back then. Back then IT people or developers did a good amount of building & coding, and many would be called software engineers nowadays.

luffapi on June 30, 2021 [–]

This number counts developers. I was around back then, the number is accurate.

There was not millions of people writing code in 1996.

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