samir, actually the xkcd top hat guyHow many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?
Give me your best guess.
(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)
0–25%
25–50%
50–75%
75–100%
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BiggestBulb 💡🏳️🌈🧑💻@samir as a programmer, I would say 50-75%. Most programmers I know are either clinging to FAANG jobs for the life of them (which are, obviously, evil - I long for the days of "don't be evil") or they are in some random startup creating a super shitty, niche product that has no possibility for a future. Most of the second category is caused by middle managers fundamentally not knowing what is right from a product point of view, but doing shit anyway.
@samir I'll also add that very, very few repos I have seen have any form of meaningful testing or QA (let alone timesavers like Hygen). Seeing a solid ESLint setup with jax-a11y is like finding a treasure chest in a Kmart parking lot - fucking impossible these days.