[anonporridge]

Same reason big tech companies are so desperately funding "learn to code" programs, especially in high school.

Don't think for a second that the software engineering gravy train won't come to a screeching end as soon as supply catches up with demand.

I wouldn't even be surprised if us SE's eventually try to heavily license and gatekeep the industry like law and medicine, loading new workers up with 6 figures of debt and significant post bachelors requirements, in order to keep our salaries artificially high. Medicine in the US seems to be especially damaged by this.

[sleepdreamy]

Ugh - I never thought of this (I work in IT) but I unfortunately could see this happening in the future. Weird times - Your healthcare example is unfortunately completely spot on

[anonporridge]

American medicine is made increasingly worse by legal liability.

From what I've observed by my conversations with friends and family in medicine, actual physicians increasingly do very little hands on work (with the exception of surgeons) and instead essentially just manage lesser educated technicians, especially RNs and advanced PAs, NPs, and CRNAs, who do the actual work. The physician essentially just stands around and observes but importantly takes most of the legal liability when things inevitably go wrong.

I think this is a huge part of the reason healthcare in the US is so expensive.

Perhaps the future of software engineering will look similar, with principle engineers and architects being like physicians. Extremely well educated, but almost no hands on experience writing code.

[WorldMaker]

Could you imagine if there actually was legal liability for software developers? Imagine a world where ethics considerations actually mattered. Maybe we'd have fewer evil software corporations?

[_aavaa_]

> Imagine a world where ethics considerations actually mattered.

Ahh yes, the rest of the non-software companies in the world.

[anthk]

Any actual CS engineering degree based job in Europe, by law..

[mike50]

I would be happy with a functional tested product.