I strongly disagree with the second part. Building public app should not require same level of skill as flying an airplane. Not even the same as getting a driver license. It had to be simple, secure and compliant.

The problem are product managers and engineers who build things like Lovable, that are not secure by design. Those products have no right to exist, but their alternatives could exist and let their users focus on what matters, instead of paying web development tax.

Those are not even remotely equivalent costs.

I’ve been mentioning it for years, but data, privacy, and security do not matter to most people, despite them saying so. Personally I operate assuming that my IDs, passport and etc. have already been leaked at some point. So, if someone says my PII has leaked once again, I’d just shrug and move on.

When Equifax thing happened, there was basically no repercussions. And that’s the only data breach I recall being in the news cycle for more than a week. Everything else has just been a blip since then. Also as there were no real repercussions other than some fines, companies took it as a signal that nobody cares (rightfully).

It's incredible how little understanding the average person has about plumbing, heating, and electricity.

> Allowing anyone to build and host a public app without a basic understanding of these things is like letting people fly a passenger plane without a license

Is it now? How many hundreds of people have died as a result? How much infrastructure was destroyed?

I get the point you're trying to make, but computer security as a field has already a big problem with maximalist mindset, and it doesn't help in keeping systems of consequence actually secure and people safe from danger.

careful what you wish for. do you want outlaw teenagers of playing with computers until they get government issued web license?