Maybe your formulation is better. This is something I've been hitting on for some time. Here's another way of looking at it: how do you know not to do your job

Maybe your formulation is better. This is something I've been hitting on for some time. Here's another way of looking at it: how do you know not to do your job? It's a simple question. All true professions like lawyers or doctors, have clear guidelines for when their services are not appropriate. You go ask a doctor to use his medical skills to hurt somebody and they'll turn you down (hopefully!) But not tech. You can throw 100 technology developers at anything. Doesn't matter if the problem is already solved, whether it needs solving or not, whether it's ethical to solve, or whatnot. Doesn't even matter (and this is more to my point) whether you can do it in one line of code or a million. In fact, a million lines would be better! Keeps everybody looking busy. We desperately need better ethics in our profession. Code budgets can help some here, but there's a lot more room for growth.