"Inventor" used to be an actual career - basically, becoming a machine that turns coffee into patents.

What would you call that these days? Research? EIR? "Labs"?

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Would agree except the entrepreneur typically focuses on one product. What's the modern version of Edison vs. Tesla, or Bell Labs?

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Patents generally don't apply to software, but all my years of "software engineering is real engineering" insist that it's the same process

patents were primarily for mechanical inventions right? in which case we’re talking about engineers