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by kasey_junk 3003 days ago
He said “criminal” charges. That is a very high bar.

Software engineers can be held liable in civil suits, as can other engineers even if there is no professional accreditation body for their industry.

It is less common in software than civil engineering for a few reasons, one of which is that customers literally have no problem signing away their liability. No one would sign a contract from a bridge designer that said “this might fall over in a stiff breeze” but that happens all the time with software.