We've professionalized industries like engineering and medicine because incompetent practitioners are a threat to public health and safety. Software is now in everything and incompetent practitioners have been a threat to public health and safety for a long time now yet we do nothing about it.
Blaming individuals when systems fail: does it work reliably?
And how can certification work across borders between jurisdictions?
I've seen a fair share of engineering disasters in my own developed country where a few signatures by engineers didn't prevent the causes.
Regulations and jail doesn't seem to be enough of a disincentive? How do you force someone to do a good job?
Open source is not very compatible with certification.
Certification either (1) makes all software proprietary or (2) requires people to sign that particular open source software is safe or (3) maybe we should disallow the liability evasion clauses of open source software licenses?
In construction, Grenfell happened and witnesses demanded immunity from prosecution to testify, because they knew they’d broken numerous laws in its construction and certification. Residents at similar buildings are the ones paying to make them safe for habitation, not the crooks that built them. Professionalisation is not a magic bullet.
Crowdstrike and countless other software failures before it is literally the proof that the gates need to be kept. The only question is whether we start doing our own gatekeeping or it eventually gets forced on us by heavy handed legislation like it was for doctors and civil engineers.
Not necessarily from the street, but I do expect bio graduates to be trained in health care at scale, without being limited by residency programs. There's no point training 10 biology graduates only for 9 of them to work as waiters or on OnlyFans.
