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Is this the hospitals fault, or as software engineers and tech entrepreneurs, our fault?
by bamboozled 6y ago
Is this the hospitals fault, or as software engineers and tech entrepreneurs, our fault?
- ryandrake 6y agoIf there is one thing I’ve learned from HN commenters, it’s that software engineers are never, ever individually responsible for the ethical or moral consequences of the software they write. It’s one of the most consistently and quickly downvoted topics here. It’s always the company’s fault.
- bamboozled 6y agoI wonder why? :)
- ryandrake 6y agoIt's such a strange dichotomy. On one hand, software engineers command healthy salaries, have massive power to decide where they work, and are in high demand everywhere. They get perks up the wazoo. On the other hand, when it comes to agency over what they work on, all of a sudden they claim their power is totally gone. "Whelp, if the boss tells me to write malware or cheat at a benchmark, I guess I just have to put my head down and do it! Poor me, nothin' I can do about it. Don't blame me, not my fault, everyone!"
- stjohnswarts 6y agoThe technology is there to get rid of 99% of this therefore the ball is in the hospital's court
- Mary-Jane 6y agoReally it's the regulatory environment. It treats any change as potentially life threatening. Imagine if you had to prove that none of your changes could possibly risk patient safety to people who think automated tests can't be trusted because they can be written to simply print "PASS" all the time.