Post #4027001
2026-07-22 16:44 UTC
Has licensing of software engineers arrived?
@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz
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@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-22 16:52
@vnikolov@ieji.de Software development is not “engineering”, because software work is “mathematical” at its best, “art” ordinarily, and “nail-hammering” at its worst. I wrote about “engineering v art” in this article: https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/CS/Curriculum/. Back in the late 1980s, when IT started to grow too if for its britches, there was a push towards public “licensure” in various sectors of these industry, especially in more engineering-centric parts. But that initiative got quashed very quickly and very harshly by the whole industry. Instead, they went with private “certification” model.