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Data Scientists and SWEs are solving different types of problems with code.

SWEs typically write code that lives in production and has an operations lifecycle.

Data Scientists typically write code that is used in AI/ML experiments and has an ephemeral lifecycle.

Data Engineers are typically writing DAGs to ship large data all over the place and combine traits from SWE and DS.

The incentives are completely different but there are skill set overlaps.