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  • I don’t think gate keeping engineering is bullshit, software or otherwise. In fact I think it is one of the few eminently important things to gatekeep.

    If computer systems have peoples lives depending on them, having accredited engineers that may be part of a chain of liability for their mistakes is a potentially life saving measure. It provides increased guarantee that someone will be held responsible, be it the firm, or in the case of bankruptcy, the individual engineer.

    This provides a significant incentive to only sign off on work that meets all relevant safety criteria.

    I’m not sure if that’s how it works in software engineering, but it certainly should.