[ForHackernews]

Software developers have never been professionals. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, chartered engineers are professionals. They have autonomy and obligations to a professional code of ethics that supersedes their responsibility to their employers.

Devs are hired goons at worst and skilled craftspeople at best, but never professionals.

[bsoles]

There are, proportionally, more lawyers than software engineers in prison I would claim. Code of ethics doesn't really mean much.