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by consumer451 31 days ago
In the Civil & Structural world, there is no greater honor than to be on the standards committee.

I hope that this becomes a thing in Software Engineering.

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IEEE SWEBOK tried to and is generally considered not to have achieved what it set out to do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Engineering_Body_of_K...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907412

See if you can find anyone outside of PE relying on it. ACM withdrew from it in 2000.

Imagine how much money will go into lobbying for some particular AI to BE the standards committee.