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If engineering owns quality, it ought to also own the liability, too.

That would put the damper on the pipe dream pretty quick. Probably more healthily than any data center ban could ever do.

If engineers were licensed, bonded, and liable, things would go very differently.

* speaking as having been a practicing software “engineer” for a decade

Applies to making bread or brain surgery. Sometimes things go wrong and people are accounted for.

But since CEOs, or any other bosses, need to make a living, they will eat the liability in exchange for wealth, and leave engineering in the dust.

Somehow hospital CEOs and doctors/nurses have managed to both eat the liability and make a living.

I think the same patterns can be applied here.