'Engineering claims an explicit responsibility to public safety and reliability, even if it doesn’t always deliver.' -> that's exactly why some programmers NEED

'Engineering claims an explicit responsibility to public safety and reliability, even if it doesn’t always deliver.' -> that's exactly why some programmers NEED to be engineers. And some are indeed 'verified' engineers (the author seems to deeply care about the fact that there are some regulation behind this word), like myself and lots of my 'programmers' friends from engineering schools. And yes we also have 'programmers' or 'developers' or 'coders', to whom we need to explain engineering principles.