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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Replying to @alicemazzy @meekaale
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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this is resolved by the field having a few shocks where the wild west sort of culture/practice causes enormous loss
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then it becomes much more conservative in what is allowed, options are restricted enough to be drilled into new entrants
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and credentials emerge to certify not that the recipient is skillful but that they have learned and can follow protocol
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thus a much more stifling and uncreative field with enormous barriers to entry
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that's how the self-taught programmer goes the way of the backwoods lawyer
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the union people will enable this to happen and then bemoan their movement was hijacked as if they didn't bring it about
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