samir, an unknown quantityHow 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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brennen@samir questions like this get a lot easier to answer once one has concluded that software is fundamentally a harmful activity.
Asnabel@Asnabel did i stutter? :)
@brennen you are literally using one right now?
@Asnabel more than one, even.
@brennen so you're willingly being evil?
@Asnabel on the one hand, to a first approximation no humans have much choice about engaging with software, so i'd say no it's more like i'm trapped in a matrix of evil by forces vastly beyond my control.
on the other hand, it's actually much worse than that: i work on software _for making software_ for a living, so really i'm deeply entangled in the operating machinery of said matrix and too constrained by my own past choices and fundamental cowardice to extricate myself in any meaningful way.