Having previously worked in a “professionalized” field (architecture) before a career change to software engineering - please no. Having a credentialing body t

Having previously worked in a “professionalized” field (architecture) before a career change to software engineering - please no. Having a credentialing body that has to review and certify you just kills wages and innovation, and makes it take an outrageously long time to enter the field. But, more importantly, it will not prevent bad programmers from existing and shipping bad software. Further, software engineering most assuredly is treated as actual professional engineering in most of the industry. That there are many companies that don’t treat it that way just means there are a lot of poorly led or non-software companies out there, which is no different than any other field.