[hinkley]

Put another way: it’s far too easy and common for certification to encourage rote memorization. And only rote memorization. No higher order reasoning is imparted.

Knowledge without reasoning is how you get mired in bureaucracy.

[neilv]

I think the larger problem is alignment.

BS gatekeeping rituals and compliance-for-sale theatre are arguably just symptoms -- of companies and individuals not being aligned with developing trustworthy systems.