[evantbyrne]

Hey, first of all sorry to post this so many days late, I just got here looking to see if this article had been posted already.

I think the piece you are missing is that guilds exist to protect workers, not consumers. US software engineers not feeling as though they need the protection of guilds means by extension there are no non-government bodies to enforce codes of conduct. It is also worth mentioning that, although limited to specific high-risk use cases, software engineering is regulated.