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Soon programming will itself require a license. Only government approved individuals will be able to write code. CPUs will only boot software signed by the gove

• shadowgovt 8mo ago
  "Software engineering" is one of the few large practices with 'engineering' in its name that has no mechanism for license granting and revocation for violation of professional standard. That's not what is happening here, but we might see that happen in our lifetimes. Hopefully before someone writes the software that kills enough people to necessitate licensing, not after (since generally, such outcomes are how licensing comes into being).
  • gzread 8mo ago
    You only need the license to work professionally, of course. You don't need a bridge building license to build with Lego.
  • hahn-kev 8mo ago
    You could argue that we have security licenses (eg SOC 2), however I don't think it actually succeeds in making software safe. I think software is hard because unlike a bridge, which is built with limited scope and the risk is known when it's designed, software grows to become load bearing without us really realizing it. Eg CrowdStrike, I never would have assumed that an outage could affect so much of the world.
• morkalork 8mo ago
  Pretty clear this is the direction seeing Google's crackdown on sideloading apps on Android.