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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Or 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.

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aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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- HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeaaa that’s not exactly a solution
    
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    HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
    
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aodhsishaj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Sounds like the kind of oversight that tends to come with a union and the representation therein.

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- mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Lol, sadly not. Most professions do not have unions and representation, such that it is, falls mostly to the accreditation group.
  
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Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
And in the cases of healthcare and emergency dispatch, loss of life as well.

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