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Teachers have to be licensed and keep up on licensing.

Plumbers. Electricians. Lawyers. Doctors. Hell, I have to get a license to run my own business.

Why shouldn't software come with a branch for licenses if you're working with sensitive data?

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We're going the other way: now any random vibe coded slop is the norm.

Normalize "vibe-plumbing"

Both plumbing and wiring are “easier” in a way than programming-as they’ll violently and potentially explosively let you know if you messed up; whereas programming lets you be blissfully unaware until you see your data plastered across the nightly news.

Wiring mistakes can kill or burn down a house months or years after they have been done. You will not notice unconnected protective earth or badly dimensioned circuit breakers until something else breaks and the protective element is not there.

There are many failure cases that are slow. Especially with water. Let say they sag a bit and connection is poor. It might slowly start leaking over months causing structural damage or at least dampness and microbiological effects.

I'm in the midst of renovating a house at the moment, it's about ten years old.

The plumber siliconed all the shower valves to the fiberglass walls without screwing them to a backplate.

Unsurprisingly the builder is now out of business.

https://structuretech.com/?s=new+construction and the "That Ain't Right" guy https://www.tiktok.com/@gold.star.inspections are enough to tell you that if you're buying new, you want to get there before it's built, from a builder that's been in business for at least a generation, and have your own inspector riding their ass the whole way.

It is, it just usually results in immediate calls to actual plumbers without anyone else finding out. Or it’s hidden behind some new drywall and paint until a different occupant finds out.

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