Engineering practices are written in blood. No one bleeds from software bugs (excluding things like Therac 25 which is classified as a medical device) so programmers will never be engineers.
There are some things which rely on their software for safety (space shuttle, perhaps cars, ...). For these cases, I really, really hope they're being coded in a way that looks like engineering, not like vibe.
Nobody probably dies if/when hearing aids crash. But then, I've not had to reboot any of them in the 20+ years I've had them.
In most cases, you're right, but then there actually is life- and safety-critical software; so I guess - it depends and that's also one of the potential ambiguity sources.
