@lioness I forget when I said it (if it was even public on bluesky or fedi) but if software engineering had anything resembling the certifications and shit that electrical, civil, mechanical, etc. engineering has in the form of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam and PE exam and the appropriate licenses for each, a TON of modern-day practices would be forced to disappear overnight simply because all of a sudden there would be massive legal consequences if you seriously fuck shit up, and you can't get away with just shipping something that's knowingly broken in some way and then patch it later.
while IDK how one could actually do such a thing, i really feel like that attitude needs to be brought over to SWE instead of "move fast and break things." there needs to be folks who actually, physically, have to rubber-stamp forms and shit before major projects get shipped. there has to be a process that leads to actual major legal consequences if its not followed, and thorough investigations if and when something DOES go wrong, which it inevitably will, and the industry learns to never repeat that again. instead of "well surely this'll go well THIS time" year after year, hype train after hype train.
