Here's a great piece from Ian Bogost in The Atlantic on this topic (gift link): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/progr...

(Please focus on his discussion of PE licensure, not on what developers should call themselves)

He says some software can be designed in our usual way: informal, fast, iterative, democratized, agile. But more and more software needs to be designed like a PE designing a public bridge: carefully, to stand strong for 100 years.