Comment by lijok

I am very glad to hear the positive tone of discourse happening under your thread. I've been arguing for regulation for the software "engineering" "profession" for over a decade now, and am usually met with dramatic recoil.

You don't need to write pacemaker firmware to produce severely negative outcomes through ineptitude or indifference. I know of a frontend developer whose UX mistake in a financial mobile app triggered a vulnerable customer to end their life. I've heard stories of people ending up in the hospital because of unmet, unvoiced requirements for tasks delegated to junior developers.

It's a strange world we live in where the "profession" with the most (usually unrealized) potential has no oversight.

Bob Martin said it best: We either regulate ourselves or we will find ourselves regulated.