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So, like professional orders in Europe? Thankfully everybody agreed that writing code is not engineering so this isn't mandated by law, but we were this close.

You don't need a permit or degree to draw up plans, just to write your name on the official version and get it implemented in the physical world. It's closer to deploying code than writing.

We have a lot of that in Europe. Parasite professions. Someone who does nothing but charges a lot for his signature.

Easily done if everyone can be convinced that learning to write code is pointless since you can just pay an AI company for access to a chatbot that will write it for you.

Fortunately there are people who write software for fun so there will always be some people who would rather do it themselves.

They sort of already do; the commercial American providers all require you to be 18 to sign up for a plan capable of agentic coding.

So, I guess people under 18 aren't allowed to learn to program anymore.

“And that was how CS became a real engineering degree”