[richsherwood]

Engineers in other disciplines are held liable for their mistakes. Imagine a civil engineer signing off on a building and then having it collapse. If it was found that the engineer was negligent then you can bet your ass there will be reprucussions. As an engineer, you are the top of your field and with that comes a professional responsibility that is important to fully realize. Mistakes are mistakes sure, but if those mistakes end up being responsible for criminal activity then you’re fully responsible. It’s why the chain of command exists.

[arkades]

> imagine a civil engineer

But there isn’t an equally trained engineer dedicating his energy to taking down the bridge - it only has to not collapse under normal usage.

When a bridge is intentionally destroyed by enemy action, it’s engineer is not held liable.

[zimpenfish]

> Engineers in other disciplines are held liable for their mistakes.

To be fair, they have several hundred (if not thousands of) years of trial and error, documentation, etc. behind them to (try and) help people avoid the mistakes.

Computer Science has barely 70 years of half-arsed fumbling about.