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I wonder if it’s time for software engineers to form our own union or guild to combat misusing our profession in corrupt and immoral ways. We would have immense
by ilovecaching 8y ago
I wonder if it’s time for software engineers to form our own union or guild to combat misusing our profession in corrupt and immoral ways. We would have immense power as a group, but on our own we’re all beholden to our employers which makes us complicit in doing work without thought to the long term societal damage we do.
- sayno3 8y agoThat sounds pretty dangerous. Specialists need to be kept in line by managers, in other words: people who specialize in human behavior and ethical concerns. I know that figuring out some obscure software pattern makes you feel like an omniscient god who should be corralling lesser beings into useful behavior, but really you have just ended up in your position partly because you are bad at other things.