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Programmers don't care about things like "the real person using this program". They just want to complete some crappy function, mark a task as "done", and go on
by 0xbadcafebee 2y ago
Programmers don't care about things like "the real person using this program". They just want to complete some crappy function, mark a task as "done", and go on to the next one. If it annoys or hurts regular people, no big deal.
This is like government policies that hurt a minority of people. The bureaucrats don't care if it hurts a few people. And the minority is small enough that nobody else cares. They can't threaten the status quo, so they will just keep on suffering, and now that's just "how things are".
- kohbo 2y agoI think this type of "they don't care" attitude on any type of engineering is too simplistic. Are there engineers who don't care? Probably. Engineers solve the problem given to them within the specifications also given to them. Those ultimately can't come from another engineer but the person implementing the thing implements it to specification. If that specification doesn't include edge cases then it's literally not their job to implement them.