The big difference is a civil/structural engineer has to individually certify a plan sets and take legal responsibility for it. The project manager can't override them.

They can fire them and hire another engineer, but even if they found someone to stamp bad plans for a fee, the original engineer could report the new engineer and have their credentials yanked.

We don't have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don't need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don't die.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

We don’t have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don’t need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don’t die.

I had a co-worker who was writing remote control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Not exactly "critical software" but he ended up firing a 125 mph knuckleball a foot above a 10-year-old kid's head.

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck Teams. The buggiest, most crash prone mess I've even been forced to use. They keep bolting on new, unnecessary "features" that only selectively work on some of their "supported" platforms.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Changed my AD password today. Teams noticed, as it always does, and refused to load the login page in the window that popped up after it signed me out. Too bad most everyone is on vacation because on any ordinary day it would've been quite welcome.

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago

But what if the audio fucking up in Teams ends up costing a big man the wealth he's entitled to?