I don't agree with many of the points made in the article in regards to certifications (formal methods aren't there yet as an industry), but I did want to touch

I don't agree with many of the points made in the article in regards to certifications (formal methods aren't there yet as an industry), but I did want to touch on that fact that "software engineer" is an aspiration term and many of today's "best practices" are pseudoscience, not based on something that can be provable.