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I think a lot of us do push back on the product owners and designers when something seems obviously bad. But I don't think it's good advice to encourage people
by rootusrootus 4y ago
I think a lot of us do push back on the product owners and designers when something seems obviously bad. But I don't think it's good advice to encourage people to unilaterally declare themselves the gatekeeper just because they write the code.
- YeahNO 4y agoArticulating why a certain function is bad design or is actively harmful is not the same as gatekeeping. I have lost opportunities because I chose to follow my ethics over my bank account. I do not regret those decisions. Software developers should have a professional code of ethics. Other professions have them, why not computer scientists, computer engineers, and software developers? There is the ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code, but I don't know any professionals outside academia that remain ACM members, IEEE membership might remain relevant for computer engineers, so I may well be wrong in that regard.
- tagyro 4y agoWhen I studied (industrial) engineering, we had a creed and naïve me still believes in that. https://order-of-the-engineer.org/about-the-order/obligation/ https://order-of-the-engineer.org/about-the-order/obligation...
- intelVISA 4y agoWe're young as a profession, once ML automates away a lot of the low hanging fruit I'd imagine we'll go a similar path.
- JohnFen 4y ago> encourage people to unilaterally declare themselves the gatekeeper just because they write the code. That's not the call to action. The call to action is to refuse to participate in unethical behavior.