>>> I have always been afraid of software engineering becoming a trade similar to medicine or law or (regular) engineering where significant barriers will be pu

>>> I have always been afraid of software engineering becoming a trade similar to medicine or law or (regular) engineering where significant barriers will be put up before you can enter the industry, but this sort of shit makes me feel like it could be for the better. I will have to go and get a degree, but that's the price I have to pay I guess. This would still happen because A) the programmers that made this mistake probably have the knowledge to pass any certification exam you can throw at them, B) most of the time we are not just building something that has exploded 1000 times before, we are creating new stuff. The engineering process was the issue here, and sadly the only way to prevent this is not to make personal barriers of entry higher but to slow down the process with more QA, testing or whatever you can throw at it. In other words, make software more expensive. And keep in mind that this would only give better numbers but it would not solve the issue either (see Boeing 737 MAX).