You could consider it as applied science in that we are dealing with CPUs, we do benchmarks, we build models of things ... but this isn't work that everyone does.
I wouldn't call most SWE work close to applied math or logic. Very few people get to deal with things that are math-adjacent or do applied math in general. Many things are just .. plumbing data.
I wouldn't call most SWE work close to applied math or logic. Very few people get to deal with things that are math-adjacent or do applied math in general. Many things are just .. plumbing data.