Airline pilot is not a great choice for comparison.
Airline pilots are selected to be entrusted with many lives, with the utmost professionalism, and to perform with ability under stress.
And it shows, in the amazing track record of aviation safety.
Most software developers, on the other hand, are mainly paid to mechanically type out code, cribbing from StackOverflow or ChatGPT whenever they don't know something, to "get it done".
And it shows, with the atrocious track record of the entire industry at information security, for one obvious metric.
Airline pilots are selected to be entrusted with many lives, with the utmost professionalism, and to perform with ability under stress.
And it shows, in the amazing track record of aviation safety.
Most software developers, on the other hand, are mainly paid to mechanically type out code, cribbing from StackOverflow or ChatGPT whenever they don't know something, to "get it done".
And it shows, with the atrocious track record of the entire industry at information security, for one obvious metric.