I do agree the profession is trivialized and infantilized, but licensing is not the answer. There are plenty of shitty doctors and builders too. We don't need

I do agree the profession is trivialized and infantilized, but licensing is not the answer. There are plenty of shitty doctors and builders too. We don't need licensing and crazy security standards to build the 10000th SaaS app. It doesn't matter if it breaks or falls down or is built by a clown. There are a few rare places where software actually needs to be very reliable, like say NASA or medical equipment or self-driving cars. Those places typically already have a very different culture and practices. The trivialization of software comes from the VC/investor class imo. They want to desperately push this idea that everyone can code because it means a continuous supply of cheap labor. Pushing back on that idea is called "gatekeeping". Devs get mindfucked into devaluing themselves, and even if they realize this, they are competing in a pool of others who are similarly mindfucked. I wish software devs would stop ceding power so easily. The typical arrangement is that you don't decide what to work on, don't decide how long it will take, don't have much say over the organizational structure etc. You don't have to passively accept shitty interviews, the obligation to make your code public, the complete decoupling of decision making from execution etc.