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This isn't "old man yells at cloud." This is a subset of a larger realization that dawns on all engineers over time: A lot of the things you thought were techn

by api 3y ago

This isn't "old man yells at cloud." This is a subset of a larger realization that dawns on all engineers over time: A lot of the things you thought were technology problems are actually people problems. I've come to this realization about a lot of what's bad about the Internet's architecture. It's not because we can't do it differently. It's because there are human social and especially economic incentives that make it this way, and introducing better tech won't change those.

ryandrake 3y ago
This gets poo-pooed here on HN a lot, but it's also because a lot of software engineers don't have much training in ethics or even a basic ethical framework they can use to say yes or no to a questionable project. For a lot of people "This project is technically interesting to me" is all the justification they need. How the higher-ups end up using the technology is "not my problem as long as I get to develop a cool new algorithm or publish a paper about it!" We engineers are actively building this cyberpunk dystopia. It's not just springing out of the ether.