It still intrigues me that if I want a steel beam in my house I need a 'Chartered Engineer' to calculate the size. If I want to know what it will cost I use a 'Chartered Quantity Surveyor', and to work out the financial implications I might use a Chartered Accountant. All of these have rigorous multi-year training, with experience requirements...and a code of ethics. This is all for a £1K contract.

Meanwhile, if I want a multi-billion dollar critical infrastructure software project, I can use people who learnt to code at summer camp. Isn't it time we had proper qualifications for software 'engineers'?