> Unless you make all the IT jobs a regulated profession and enforce significant yearly recertification, the mediocres will dominate. This would merely optimis

> Unless you make all the IT jobs a regulated profession and enforce significant yearly recertification, the mediocres will dominate. This would merely optimise the industry for people who are good at wiggling through bureaucratic hurdles. It would entrench mediocrity while lopping off the extreme ends of the skill distribution - on both ends.