[neilv]

I think that culture shift will have to come from the top in business -- the CEO and the board.

At this point, the software development field is about operating within the system decided by those others, with the goal of personally getting money.

After you've made the CEO and board accountable, I think dev culture will adapt almost immediately.

Beware of attempts to push engineering licensing or certifications, etc. as a solution here. Based on everything we've seen in the field in recent decades, that will just be used at the corporate level as a compliance letter-but-not-spirit tool to evade responsibility (as well as a moat to upstart competitors), and a vendor market opportunity for incompetent leeches.

First you make CEO and board accountable, and then let the dev culture change, and then, once you have a culture of people taking responsibility, then you'll have the foundation to add in licensing (designed in good faith) as an extra check on that, if that looks worthwhile.