I’d argue it is the programmer’s fault. You have to take ethics classes in college for a reason. Programmers implementing terrible features is the reason we have a lot of terrible stuff in the world right now. And it’s most definitely the programmers fault, we make enough that ethics shouldn’t be an issue.
The developer should always raise ethical concerns if they have them, I agree. And those above should listen.
As for the notion that programmers are the reason for all the terrible stuff in the world then perhaps that’s kinda true, but only from the most literal sense.
If we look at the evils that have been unleashed on this world by Facebook etc, then from a very literal perspective if no single developer ever pushed a single key on a single keyboard then none of that would have happened. But I’d struggle to say it’s solely their fault when there’s so many others involved also.
I’d argue it is the programmer’s fault. You have to take ethics classes in college for a reason. Programmers implementing terrible features is the reason we have a lot of terrible stuff in the world right now. And it’s most definitely the programmers fault, we make enough that ethics shouldn’t be an issue.
You’re going to lose your job over that?
The developer should always raise ethical concerns if they have them, I agree. And those above should listen.
As for the notion that programmers are the reason for all the terrible stuff in the world then perhaps that’s kinda true, but only from the most literal sense.
If we look at the evils that have been unleashed on this world by Facebook etc, then from a very literal perspective if no single developer ever pushed a single key on a single keyboard then none of that would have happened. But I’d struggle to say it’s solely their fault when there’s so many others involved also.