> Consequences for me messing up are far less severe than the consequences for a PE messing up.
if I approve a bad release that leads to an egregious failure, for me it's a prison sentence and unlimited fines
in addition to being struck off and banned from the industry
> That's a whole different ball game.
if you say so
>if I approve a bad release that leads to an egregious failure, for me it's a prison sentence and unlimited fines
Again, I'm in 510k land. The same applies to myself. No one's gonna allow me to irradiate a patient with a 10x dose because my bass ackwards software messed up scientific notation. To remove the wrong kidney because I can't convert orthonormal basis vectors correctly.
But the fact remains that no one would stop either of us from writing software in the future in some other domain.
They do stop PE's from designing buildings in the future in any other domain. By law. So it's very much a different ball game. After an egregious error, we can still practice our craft, because we aren't "engineers" at the end of the day. (Again, "engineers" in that hard sense of the word.) PE's can't practice their craft any longer after an egregious error. Because they are "engineers" in that hard sense of the word.
pray tell, how I can practice my craft from prison