This makes a good case for an official software engineering licensing program like what we have for other kinds of engineers, at least for high-risk things like

This makes a good case for an official software engineering licensing program like what we have for other kinds of engineers, at least for high-risk things like medical control systems and government security. Right now, a nontechnical person has no basis for evaluating the quality of engineer which they hired to do this job, except by asking other engineers, etc.