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What separates software from engineering are concerns about legal liability. If we actually sued software companies for shipping us harmful crap, software would

• oivey 2y ago
  Not really true. The legal liability is generally associated with the Professional Engineer designation. In electrical engineering, for example, my experience is that almost no one uses/needs to be a PE unless they work in infrastructure projects like power distribution. People designing PCBs, ASICs, etc going in consumer products aren’t generally PEs.
  • ghaff 2y ago
    There isn’t even a software engineer PE any longer I believe. But even otherwise it’s uncommon outside of civil engineering. Mostly it’s for signing off on drawings/designs for regulators. I started down the path in mechanical but didn’t stay in that track long enough to get one.
• spwa4 2y ago
  ... AND people would pay for software like they pay for any other kind of engineering. Or they wouldn't get any software.