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I was a structural engineer (EIT) once. I pushed back against a manager that wanted to do something that I knew for certain would degrade the structural capacity that the design engineer had planned for. He could have fired me but it would have made the news if he did because the public has trust in the individual engineers that design our buildings and civil works.

We need the same for software. It doesn't mean mistakes never happen. Mistakes happen even with the best of intentions by the smartest people. We don't blindly strip engineers of their livelihood. Only when an engineer has shown gross incompetence or carelessness or repeated poor judgement does that happen.