[api]

Some of the best developers I know are self taught. Professional licensure makes it illegal for them to practice, or at least relegates them to low end work. It further cements the requirement that someone go deeply into debt to purchase the right to work from a university.

It also creates artificial scarcity which will easily 10X costs.

Dealing with security problems is much cheaper.

[gavinhoward]

Not every developer needs the certification under my plan. And getting it is an apprenticeship, not education.

[api]

In practice you’ll get a certification mill industry that charges lots of money to certify you. Whether it’s inside or outside universities, it will be pay to play. Developers will spend the first N years of their career paying for their taxi medallion.

If you can’t tell I am deeply and profoundly cynical of systems like this. They always turn into rent extraction schemes for bureaucrats, consultants, etc.

[patrakov]

It also makes hiring foreign talent (where such certifications do not exist) impossible.