Comment by Jtsummers
2 years ago
> In some industries like avionics and medical instruments, the programmer might be personally held responsible for any loss of life/injury if it could be proven.
If you aren't a PE, it's hard to hold you personally responsible unless they can show something close to willful, deliberate misbehavior in the development or testing of a system even in avionics. Just being a bad programmer won't be enough to hold you responsible.
If your software kills someone (by mistake), personal guilt is a punishment one never completes.