[programminggeek]

It is probably worth noting that Uncle Bob doesn't seem to be implying that the pilot training model is exactly the model that we should use. His point if you read a bunch of his stuff is that as a profession, we should look beyond our own borders to learn lessons from doctors, accountants, lawyers, pilots, engineers, architects, etc. to advance the level of professionalism in our profession. If software is going to make the world a better place ideas like "move fast and break things" probably isn't going to end up being a net benefit overall, especially for important, life or security critical software.

If we pile in a bunch of novices without proper training and hand them projects that involve account security, personal information, etc. we are going to keep hearing about major security breaches, password hacks, etc.

The more that the software industry has major catastrophic failures costing millions/billions of dollars, the more likely that we get regulated.

[Cthulhu_]

And yet, go our own way too. Software is (or used to be built) like other engineering professions; big design up front, then build (and often have the actual construction done by relatively low-wage workers). Software's much more complicated though.