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> I acknowledge, by the way, that I use Google services to run my vanity domain, including my web site and mail server. It's a hassle to move all that, but one
by Permit 1y ago
> I acknowledge, by the way, that I use Google services to run my vanity domain, including my web site and mail server. It's a hassle to move all that, but one I am ever nearer to taking on.
> And a final response is for the engineers who work for these big tech companies simply to refuse to build systems that work this way. If you're at Google, you have agency – you decide what code you write. Yeah, I know: "No" might get you fired. But there are other jobs.
Am I to understand that it’s too much of a hassle to move domains but not to change jobs (after being fired, no less)?
- Firehawke 1y agoYeah, that's a pretty big case of dissonance there. While I agree with large parts of the article in general, the bit about getting yourself fired is just completely out of touch with reality in a job market trying to replace engineers with shitty AI.
- ajross 1y agoNitpick: it's not cognitive dissonance, just "selfishness". Wanting others to take on burdens that you don't want to bear is a universal human desire, and not very surprising. It's just frowned on as a matter of moral philosophy, so you're not supposed to frame it like that in formal writing. The author's crime is poor editing, basically.
- Firehawke 1y agoI never said cognitive, just dissonance. A tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements.