Sounds like the kind of oversight that tends to come with a union and the representation therein.
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 months agoOr it needs to be a profession.
Licensed professional engineers are expected to push back on requests that endanger the public and face legal liability if they don’t. Software has hit the point where failure is causing the economic damage of a bridge collapsing.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 3 months ago
mriormro@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Lol, sadly not. Most professions do not have unions and representation, such that it is, falls mostly to the accreditation group.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And in the cases of healthcare and emergency dispatch, loss of life as well.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Software engineering is too wide and deep for licensing to be feasible without a degree program- which would be a massive slap in the face to the millions of skilled self taught devs.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
Some states let some people get professional licensure through experience alone. It just ends up taking more than a decade of experience to meet the equivalent requirements of a four year degree.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeaaa that’s not exactly a solution
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
Why not? It is still valuing the self education of people. It just means having a license to manage the system requires people with significant experience.
And it isn’t like a degree alone is required for licensure.