> The day you need a license to write code is the day I start a coding-as-civil-disobedience program.
It's the same as being a lawyer, a doctor, a nurse or a CPA. Those are careers that can cause a lot of harm to other people, yet programmers think they're above it all.
Wait until someone takes control of a smart power grid, or a self driving car/truck/airplane because of outsourcing or someone writes some shit software that causes an airplane to fall out of the sky.
The Boeing 737 MAX is already an example of cost-cutting in software leading to measurable deaths. But Boeing took the flak, not the software engineering profession as a whole.
It's the same as being a lawyer, a doctor, a nurse or a CPA. Those are careers that can cause a lot of harm to other people, yet programmers think they're above it all.
Wait until someone takes control of a smart power grid, or a self driving car/truck/airplane because of outsourcing or someone writes some shit software that causes an airplane to fall out of the sky.