And the bar exams are just another "has a college degree" filter too, but they've been proven to work as a useful metric, and they are overseen by an associatio

And the bar exams are just another "has a college degree" filter too, but they've been proven to work as a useful metric, and they are overseen by an association of professionals. And legal knowledge is way more open-ended than software knowledge, with far more subtleties in its practice. Yet. The bar exam somehow works. >Why can't we have some sort licensing board like a medical board so that you prove you can code Too many software developers have a strong aversion to regulatory bodies in their own profession. That really is the issue here.