At least when the senior software engineer becomes progressively less competent, they tend to fail faster. The code doesn't compile, the builds fail, the tickets start accumulating. When it happens to a judge, the significant feedback can take years to return from the appeals courts. And even then it isn't disqualifying.
But there is no compiler for legal decisions, and no instant specifications to fail, and if trouble tickets start piling up, nobody has to notice them. Imagine what would happen to the quality of your code under those circumstances.
At least when the senior software engineer becomes progressively less competent, they tend to fail faster. The code doesn't compile, the builds fail, the tickets start accumulating. When it happens to a judge, the significant feedback can take years to return from the appeals courts. And even then it isn't disqualifying.
But there is no compiler for legal decisions, and no instant specifications to fail, and if trouble tickets start piling up, nobody has to notice them. Imagine what would happen to the quality of your code under those circumstances.