It's all real programming and it has all the real consequences, but there is a distinction between something that needs to live for a day, a few months, maybe y

It's all real programming and it has all the real consequences, but there is a distinction between something that needs to live for a day, a few months, maybe years and then maybe have multiple people work on it, have it communicate with other systems or not and the level of investment and structure you need to put into a system to make sure that's possible. Programming has a very low barrier to entry and that is incredibly powerful but there is a big gap between someone writing one off scripts to solve immediate problems and people writing highly connected systems that withstand scrutiny. I've always personally been for accreditation for software engineers much like pretty much every other engineering discipline.