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> I've always thought it was pretty sad that lawyers are held to higher professional and ethical standards than software engineers. I think that's a bit silly.
by EpicEng 9y ago
> I've always thought it was pretty sad that lawyers are held to higher professional and ethical standards than software engineers.
I think that's a bit silly. The vast majority of software is trivial stuff and no real harm is caused when something goes sideways. Few of us work on safety critical systems. When a lawyer screws up it often does a lot of harm and they are also inherently bound by our legal systems. Corruption and negligence/incompetence in this area lessens the public's faith in those systems.
Lawyers and civil engineer inherently take on far greater responsibility than your average Joe Schmoe programmer writing yet another CRUD app.
- skolemtotem 9y agoThat's true, but what about the software engineers who do build world-changing stuff? I think that we should definitely hold them to a higher standard than we currently do.
- EpicEng 9y ago>That's true, but what about the software engineers who do build world-changing stuff? Yeah I can get behind that. I work in biotech/cancer diagnostics/prognostics and we could definitely afford a higher standard, especially around the core stuff (e.g. the CV/algorithms people, but also the typical IT end of things.)