Is it? Are you legally culpable in the case that your software kills or maims somebody? Because a civil engineer is, if the bridge they built falls down. Is the

Is it? Are you legally culpable in the case that your software kills or maims somebody? Because a civil engineer is, if the bridge they built falls down. Is there a license you need to practice writing software, that can be revoked and prevent you from writing more software if you're caught writing software with gross negligence, leading to it getting hacked? Because other engineering disciplines are held to those kinds of standards. Words mean things, and if we want to consider "software engineer" as anything more than title inflation, it should mean more than just a programmer who's full of themselves. If I shit out a webapp that's crashes if you look at it funny, that shouldn't be considered software engineering because it's a pile of shit that barely works. If I make a webapp that actually gives useful error messages to users and is robust in the face of failure and is maintainable and someone else would want to touch my code, then we're starting to get somewhere.