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bobmcnamara 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

In my country those are a myth. We had it as a professional engineering classification for a while but I'm not sure if anyone ever completed it. They cancelled it several years ago.

pjmlp 11 months ago [–]

And in US anyone can call themselves whatever they feel like.

If you want professional quality, we're the first line of actually making it happen, blaming others won't change anything.

bobmcnamara 11 months ago | [–]

Turns out there could be up to 81 US professional software engineers!

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...

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