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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month agoSome 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 1 month ago
Yeaaa that’s not exactly a solution
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.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because a decade of professional experience is a long time, and doesn’t value independent experience. I’ve been coding for over 11 years, but professionally only a couple. Also software development is very international, how would that even be managed when working with self-taught people across continents?
I agree developers should be responsible, but licensing isn’t it, when there are 16 year olds that are better devs than master’s graduates.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Do we allow for self taught doctors or accountants?
Also, these regulations aren’t being developed for all servers, just ones that can cause major economic damage if they stop functioning. And you don’t need everyone to be qualified to run the service. How many water treatment pants are there where you only have a small set of managers running the plant, but most people aren’t licensed to do so?
mriormro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then you do not get licensed and cannot work on certain projects that may require a licensed or accredited team.
Licensure isn’t about how good you are. It’s about ensuring that you, as a professional, understand the ramifications of your contributions to the work you do and the field you are a part of and accepting the responsibility of those ramifications. Continuing education is also a huge part of it but I don’t think software engineers have much issue there.