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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (www.seangoedecke.com)

submitted 3 days ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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We live in a late-stage-capitalist hellscape, where large companies are run by aspiring robber barons who have no serious convictions beyond desiring power. All those companies want is for obedient engineering drones to churn out bad code fast, so they can goose the (largely fictional) stock price. Meanwhile, end-users are left holding the bag: paying more for worse software, being hassled by advertisements, and dealing with bugs that are unprofitable to fix. The only thing an ethical software engineer can do is to try and find some temporary niche where they can defy their bosses and do real, good engineering work, or to retire to a hobby farm and write elegant open-source software in their free time.

[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

This applies actually to all engineers