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> I am a civil engineer and there's a standard of ethics and personal responsibility among engineers that is very, very high. And that is because no one can j
by RestlessMind 6y ago
> I am a civil engineer and there's a standard of ethics and personal responsibility among engineers that is very, very high.
And that is because no one can just go to a 6-month bootcamp and call themselves a Civil engineer. And even if they did, no one would hire them or the employer would go to jail.
If we want Software Engineering to be as rigorous as other Engineering disciplines, we need to erect similar barriers to become a Software Engineer.
- Enginerrrd 6y agoHonestly, I think it would be sensible to have a software engineering licensure, though it shouldn't be required for all developers or development. I'd say something like an engineering stamp would be pretty reasonable for anything requiring encryption, financial data or transactions, health data, etc. And that's not to say that developers couldn't work on it, but just that a licensed software engineer should be in responsible charge of their work to ensure that it has been performed according to best practices and standards.