I think some people attempted to get us out of this Wild West during the 20th century, with people like Margaret Hamilton trying to turn software engineering in

I think some people attempted to get us out of this Wild West during the 20th century, with people like Margaret Hamilton trying to turn software engineering into "real" engineering. I don't really know why we seem to have reverted back to this stage nowadays, I suspect the boom/burst cycles of tech, especially 2001, might not have helped.