> They've been true for over a century at this point though.
The duration of the status quo doesn’t feel at all relevant to my argument.
> what is it about software that you think it should require a PE stamp when hardware should not?
Any profession of system design whose failure mode is “people die” would better serve a culture that abhors preventable deaths if governed by the same licensure, liability, professional ethics and independent verification used by electrical and structural engineering. I don’t make any distinction between hardware and software, but this article happens to be about software, so that’s what we’re discussing.
The duration of the status quo doesn’t feel at all relevant to my argument.
> what is it about software that you think it should require a PE stamp when hardware should not?
Any profession of system design whose failure mode is “people die” would better serve a culture that abhors preventable deaths if governed by the same licensure, liability, professional ethics and independent verification used by electrical and structural engineering. I don’t make any distinction between hardware and software, but this article happens to be about software, so that’s what we’re discussing.