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The ones that matter, do this. In many states if you are building anything for a government or business where lives are at stake, a PE is involved and there's l
by duped 2y ago
The ones that matter, do this. In many states if you are building anything for a government or business where lives are at stake, a PE is involved and there's legal liability for the engineers that certify something.
But the whole PE thing is nonsense. We can get around this with malpractice policies/insurance and still have a qualified human certifying things, and reasonable bodies rejecting that certification if they don't feel the human that does it is up to snuff. The whole PE dance is just a dog and pony show.
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoMaybe we should be concerned about more than just direct loss of life? What about data leaks, for example? It might be nice if there were some risk that software engineers could lose their license over eg. plaintext passwords, or be protected by a governing body if they need to take a professional ethics stand against their employer.