That's crazy, I ended up feeling the same way. At first just the cool factor of building something like skynet blinded me. I had friends deployed in wars and

That's crazy, I ended up feeling the same way. At first just the cool factor of building something like skynet blinded me. I had friends deployed in wars and I often found myself being worried and told myself that what I'm working will someday make sure that my friends' probability of coming home in a bodybag will be reduced significantly. I also told myself that my code itself was so early that it would never see any real action in any meaningful way. But eventually what I was helping to build became too much to think about. I moved on to hacking car ecu's and making them go faster. Utterly meaningless compared to my previous job, but a good fun couple of years of what amounted in my mind to toy-building after what I'd previously worked on. You can say I joined your group as well. I can only imagine what the poor sobs in the article go through, they don't exactly have the option to join said group. Not to mention watching real people dying in near real time must have a crazy impact that I can't ever compare to my own experience.