Post #2874079
2024-06-20 02:27 UTC
@Warlockofwires@techhub.social @samir@mastodon.functional.computer
Unfortunately, software engineering is more akin to building trades than PE: the area of its applied sciences is very large, not well-defined, and entails a myriad of sub-specialization.
That does not mean, like trades or finance, they cannot form guilds and unions to build standards and enforce regulations and ethics. It just means PE will not accept them into the fold.
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@williampietri@sfba.social 2024-06-20 11:25
@amgine@mstdn.ca I think one of our errors is to treat "software engineering" as a unified thing. Some of it is (or should be) actual engineering. Some is like the trades. A bunch is handwritten-handyman-ad-on-a-telephone pole work. That a bunch of people from the last skill category think they can work on life-critical stuff is deranged. @Warlockofwires@techhub.social @samir@mastodon.functional.computer