I think you're being unfairly downvoted here, and you bring up a lot of good points.
> It sounds like you find cheating shameful for vague moralistic reasons that you have not disclosed.
That's absolutely right. I didn't elaborate at all.
> That's why almost nobody can writing software anymore
Honestly though I think that writing software is just hard.
> must be willing to impose minimal standards of acceptable practice
Yeah this is an interesting idea. Like how attorneys have to pass a bar. I don't really know how it would go, but I do believe that the industry already has a hard enough of a time hiring and this would just make things that much harder. Some organizations though seem to have a knack for improving their new hires by a lot, so it's not like all these organizations are evil, just most are probably incompetent. Again, software is hard.
> The goals of hiring/employment often do not align to the skills required to perform product delivery.
Yeah, I would say in general that bad incentives are abound.
I think a lot of the points you brought up are products of strange market dynamics. For so long companies haven't really felt the weight of gravity and have had so much investor money that it feels like a lot of what one could consider fundamentals have been tossed out the window in favor of other things. This is where perverse incentives start to manifest in my view.
> It sounds like you find cheating shameful for vague moralistic reasons that you have not disclosed.
That's absolutely right. I didn't elaborate at all.
> That's why almost nobody can writing software anymore
Honestly though I think that writing software is just hard.
> must be willing to impose minimal standards of acceptable practice
Yeah this is an interesting idea. Like how attorneys have to pass a bar. I don't really know how it would go, but I do believe that the industry already has a hard enough of a time hiring and this would just make things that much harder. Some organizations though seem to have a knack for improving their new hires by a lot, so it's not like all these organizations are evil, just most are probably incompetent. Again, software is hard.
> The goals of hiring/employment often do not align to the skills required to perform product delivery.
Yeah, I would say in general that bad incentives are abound.
I think a lot of the points you brought up are products of strange market dynamics. For so long companies haven't really felt the weight of gravity and have had so much investor money that it feels like a lot of what one could consider fundamentals have been tossed out the window in favor of other things. This is where perverse incentives start to manifest in my view.