Software development is hard

Following the CrowdStrike fiasco, and my blog post about it, something was haunting me. Is being accountable for our software really about getting more respect? Or maybe, software development is indeed hard? In fact, it’s so hard that I don’t even think it’s possible to demand accountability from software engineers, as the scope would be limited to a very small amount of lines of code that do no use third party libraries or interact with any third party services and/or APIs.