Great post. Yes when your GC or carpenter needs to remove a wall, they bring in a real structural engineer. These roles exist for software engineering also. Only thing we are missing is a real licensing and governance body.
Well, and some sort of stable target to aim at regarding ‘important’. There is pretty solid consensus in construction that things like foundation design, structural walls/supports, projects over a given size, etc. need engineering sign off.
There is no such consensus I can see right now on the software side, and software projects are also a lot more complex than a typical construction project in ways that are hard to quantify.
How would you even define a licensing test that wouldn’t be obsolete in a year or two even?
