Comment by thaumasiotes

> There are no devs that will go to prison if what they produce has, say, a major vulnerability. That alone disqualifies it from being engineering. There's no licensure, there's no liability

The only problem in your theory is that none of those things has anything to do with "engineering".

You're arguing that a surgeon who removes a burst appendix in a hygienic environment isn't "practicing medicine" if they aren't licensed to do that in the jurisdiction where it happens. You'd have to be insane to believe that.

Engineering means solving problems. A license is a license. They're unrelated concepts.