>Is software easier or harder than hardware? Neither. Rather, it's the total lack of design accountability procedures in place for software. When a mechanica

>Is software easier or harder than hardware? Neither. Rather, it's the total lack of design accountability procedures in place for software. When a mechanical or electrical engineer messes up, there is a legal framework in place to hold the involved parties responsible for their actions. Depending on how bad the negligence was, this can include jail time. This motivates those designing the hardware aspect of a product to check and recheck their work many times over, and as a result you rarely read about hardware failures with this level of frequency. In contrast, when a software system fails, everyone seems to just throw their hands up in the air and say how this is par for the course. There is currently no legal PE certification available for software, so we have seen disproportionately many catastrophic software failures.