@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
2024-06-21 14:18 UTC
The poll completed with ~6000 votes. That's about 5900 more than I expected.
Most of you seem to believe that more than half of professional programmers out there are working on pointless and/or harmful products.
I'm sad. I don't really disagree. Whatever the actual number, I think we can agree it's too damn high.
https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/112644372377281999
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer 2024-06-21 14:19
Personally, I have spent my career working on mostly pointless software. Software that never made it to production before it was canned. Software that diligently produced reports that were never read. Software that shunted data into a black hole. I have to believe that we can do better than this. People replied to me with the good work they do, and the bad work they do. Most of us on here can agree that gambling sites are harmful, but we can also agree that medical software saves lives.