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> Why do so many tech companies think they have a right to issue decisions to employees, contractors, or customers without communicating context? You're probab
by sublinear 4y ago
> Why do so many tech companies think they have a right to issue decisions to employees, contractors, or customers without communicating context?
You're probably not gonna believe it, but it's because they don't know much, especially the context in which they're making decisions.
How could they really? The reality of any company is not its ideas, but its implementation details. For tech companies that's really difficult.
You know how everyone with a room temperature IQ keeps insisting that AI is gonna take away programming jobs? Imagine that it already happened except that instead of losing your job you have been left to manage the robots... that's the position they're in, but the robots are instead extremely stubborn 20-something contrarians who want to rewrite everything in Rust.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
- toomuchtodo 4y agoThey know, they just to care, hence the need for strong regulation to protect the populace from the tech industry.
- artogahr 4y agoI feel called out.
- ipaddr 4y agoYou are probably at that 4-7 years experience level where you are at the top of your stack and feel like you know everything. In the next 15 years you will learn anything can be implemented in any language and the tradeoffs are less important than they appear
- pydry 4y agoNo, they know. They just want to protect their automated systems that determine innocence or guilt from being gamed. That, and liability. The fewer reasons they give the harder it is to be held liable for getting it wrong.