c) realize they're the bourgeoisie, trying to signal downward for social cred like white kids bragging about visiting "rough" neighborhoods
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whereas unions are largely about securing more favorable working conditions
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the flip side of professional orgs is they are intensely exclusionary since their role is to maintain field prestige
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so if/when such a thing happens to programming it would mean pervasive mandatory credentialism, which I despise
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it will happen sooner or later, probably after a series of high-profile software-related deaths, but I'd prefer later
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The thing is: our professionals suck. None of us know what we're doing. Pretending some have the perfect answers would not be good now.
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yea a big reason the field is as anti-credentialist as it is is because existing credentials have no predictive value
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it's a mistake to view programming as unique in comparison to other complex fields, it's just presently much freer
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so intelligence/raw talent/intuition/adaptability matter a lot more than adherence to procedure which can be trained
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