I presume we're still talking about software. Auditing proves what?
Accountants audit that the books are consistent. It's extremely hard to fake consistency and do fraud, especially when there's 3rd parties involved. The edges of the arithmetic get nailed down, because bank payments were sent and invoices paid. So the internal consistency is checkable and valuable.
But software. Are you proving it does what you want? But you didn't write down what you want. Or maybe you're into spec-driven development, or detailed wikis, or whatnot, so you did. Most people aren't, though, and those docs are already out of date anyway.
I think there's something here, because we're all telling our agents what we want the software to be. So maybe you could audit against that. But this isn't the same as accounting.
I presume we're still talking about software. Auditing proves what?
Accountants audit that the books are consistent. It's extremely hard to fake consistency and do fraud, especially when there's 3rd parties involved. The edges of the arithmetic get nailed down, because bank payments were sent and invoices paid. So the internal consistency is checkable and valuable.
But software. Are you proving it does what you want? But you didn't write down what you want. Or maybe you're into spec-driven development, or detailed wikis, or whatnot, so you did. Most people aren't, though, and those docs are already out of date anyway.
I think there's something here, because we're all telling our agents what we want the software to be. So maybe you could audit against that. But this isn't the same as accounting.