In an ever-more intricate and connected world, where software plays a larger and larger role in everyday life, it’s irresponsible to speak of coding as a lightw

In an ever-more intricate and connected world, where software plays a larger and larger role in everyday life, it’s irresponsible to speak of coding as a lightweight activity. Is this what the author considers 'ethically complex'? I was really hoping for something with some weight to it that would make way for deep thinking on the matter, but as presented...I'm not finding anything convincing about this bit of writing that the target audience (or who I suppose the target audience, because even that's hard to distill) doesn't already know, or anything that identifies or summarily challenges any frameworks of the 'ethics' of 'coding'. More and more ‘decisions’ are being entrusted to software, including life-or-death ones: think self-driving cars; think semi-autonomous weapons; think Facebook and Google making inferences about your marital, psychological or physical status, before selling it to the highest bidder. Maybe it's this line? But I stand on my soapbox and say these aren't ethical issues of 'coding', these are ethical issues that already exist, 'coding' is merely the most present manifestation of these things, flavorful carrots dangled at the end of a long stick wielded and ultimately controlled by human operators. Are those issues inherently ethical to coding? I posit they are not