Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "Engineers Should Be Held Liable" video.

  1. We also need the power to enforce standards. If you have responsibility without the power to enforce the responsiblity you will just be screwed.
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  2. In most professions engineers have legal protections and sign off requirements so that bosses can't force them to do illegal and dangerous things. Programmers don't have that. You can't have responsibility without the power to enforce it.
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  3. If programmers have consequences for this kind of thing then they also need the authority to enforce doing things the right way. In almost every case I have ever seen it is management that forces corners to be cut, to skip testing, to skip writing better code, to just hack enough to get something to kind of work. If you have consequences without authority then people will quit being programmers.
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