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If anything, we're not responding to this enough. If we were civil engineers it would be shocking for the public to learn that we are sometimes ordered build t
by chownie 1y ago
If anything, we're not responding to this enough.
If we were civil engineers it would be shocking for the public to learn that we are sometimes ordered build the bridges terribly on purpose, for something like the purpose that it influences people toward using toll roads -- when in the world of software engineering not only has this kind of anti-user (anti-human) behaviour become commonplace but actually it's increasingly the only novel work we do between gluing other people's code together.
- globular-toast 1y agoAgreed. You don't even need to just include engineers. Even professionals like electricians or nurses etc stand to be struck off or even sent to prison for incompetence like mislabelling a fusebox or something. Meanwhile software engineers are being told to just fucking put a bolt in the fusebox, we haven't got time to do it properly.
- jama211 1y agoBecause people’s lives aren’t typically at stake because a website is janky.
- jama211 1y agoWe’re not building bridges though are we. I’m more aware than anyone that the software is terrible about the place. I’ve also seen that fail to matter that much 99% of the time.
- chownie 1y agoNah, we're just handling national security, healthcare, banking and social welfare. We're of course allowed to make oopsies, and since we're not a real engineering profession we're never held accountable :)