I think we should talk more about the clear success of software engineering as a high-skill profession with virtually no gatekeeping — why & how that’s working, etc.
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2/ to the same extent that happens if you're a lawyer, doctor or civil engineer (someone goes to jail, dies, or a bridge collapses respectfully).
There *is* accreditation for CS, which is why it's kinda incredible that a lot of software cos aren't filtering on it, and there are tons of possible real world consequences for buggy/insecure code (e.g. in finance). The latter might be less salient to the typical person, though
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It's not serious accreditation done by the state like the bar or medical licenses, it's rather minor and is failing because of lack of network effects. And I'd argue by in large software isn't that critically impactful - by volume swes are probably making internal CRUD apps
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Two follow ups 1. I think accreditation works by being a monopoly (a good example of this is the sat/act/gre) 2. Software accreditation is hard to monopolize because of globalization (doctors, lawyers and engineers usually have to be based close to operations)
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