There isn't much of a market for unlicensed medical help. There'd be a market for unlicensed coders. Anyone can write up a piece of code, and plenty of people c

There isn't much of a market for unlicensed medical help. There'd be a market for unlicensed coders. Anyone can write up a piece of code, and plenty of people can do it sufficiently well to be useful commercially. Moreover, there is tremendous growth in this area, most plans for economic growth these days centers around tech innovation. Taking that away is going to meet strong resistance. Finally, this either kills open source or leads to very very weird grey lines. Besides that, drugs and buildings are well-defined products. Software gets weird, how do you apply rules to SaaS? How does sign-off interact with continuous delivery? Who is held accountable when a hardware bug causes a software error? What about an OS bug, or malformed packets? I agree that we need regulation and accountability here, but blanket engineer-like requirements aren't going to work. Both because the actual requirement is hard to implement, and because there is such a glut for programmers. The second might blow over, but the first is an eternal issue. Maybe requiring well limited fitness for purpose statements from engineers on critical cases can work.