That's why engineers have tiered systems where a number of unlicensed people can do the work, but a licensed one has to sign off on the work. Proposing similar

That's why engineers have tiered systems where a number of unlicensed people can do the work, but a licensed one has to sign off on the work. Proposing similar licensing schemes to those in civil engineering basically means "do that". Nobody's interested in restricting access to Vim and python.exe to only the most learned and wise. This is why I framed the discussion about password hashing as being about a senior getting what amounts to an intern to do incredibly sensitive work without oversight. Something the article did poorly is its analogy between software engineers and solo tradespeople. That's the wrong end. There is very little danger in having solo software engineers working unlicensed; they're out there making Wordpress websites and apps that are also basically information websites. Solo tradespeople are doing electrical work that might start a fire and kill a family. There is a big difference at the low end and it is bad to compare those two classes of worker.