Do you think software engineering should be a licensed profession? Or do you think it eventually will be? There is so much at stake at times with what we do. While I think software a decent enough job with regulation where it really matters (financial or self driving like development), I’m sure it’s not to the par of what it should be. To add, engineers have a pretty easy recovery should they act in bad faith.
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No, because the licensing will never keep up with the skills actually required
What a strange industry that we’re all in. Unable to keep up but so much risk exposure
We’ll be lucky if it’s even a valid career in the next several years. The software/tech industry has always been in the practice of offshored jobs to save corporate money and outside of immigration laws, it’s totally unregulated. In addition to that we now need to contend with the way ai is replacing people and contaminating the hiring process. This isn’t a career that rewards hard work and dedication and as long as the greedy corporate types are calling the shots it’ll continue to erode.
We’ll have to see how it shakes out. That baffles me how comfortable companies go offshore in spite of it
In the next 3 years Software Engineering will just be AI engineering. Now there may be where companies have to get their AI model that they use licensed in some way as there will be many home grown AI models to use by that time. Which then probably as it always works, a new government agency will exist to supposedly protect citizens from companies that use AI and new laws and new regulations and new things you have to get licensed and approved etc and then the chance of getting in on the ground floor of AI will become a pipe dream.
That very well could be the way it goes
Yeah this will never happen. Industry certification already does this in some ways. The issue is Software Engineering is quite varied as well. For example, someone with integration experience and skills may not be specialist in backed development. A software licence doesn't guarantee anything here.
There is one viable one which was the AWS certification