• seth@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This makes sense for civil, structural, electrical engineering, and similar. For software engineering though, it doesn’t make sense to me unless it’s for software specifically meant for something critically important for life or safety, like embedded software for industrial safety sensors and shutoff relays, medical monitoring, etc. And that kind of equipment I would expect to have the responsibility for signing off as safe by software-adjacent people like QA testers and non-software people like environmental health and safety officers, lawyers, and so forth.