[morning-coffee]

I think engineering only means something because of culture. It all starts from the culture of collective people who define and decide what principles are to be followed and why. All the certifications and licensing that are prerequsite to becoming an engineer are outcomes of the culture that defined them.

Today we have pockets of code produced by one culture linked (literally) with pockets of code produced by a completely different ones and somehow expect the final result to adhere to the most principled and disciplined culture.