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but they're not programming computers. They're commissioning footgun-riddled software from a junior intern


People have the grandest ideas about the quality of the average piece of software existing in the real world.


for your own use you can use whatever crap you have a machine come up with for you.

For use on others, no. It's not about just the quality, it's about not even knowing what you're selling.


What is the end goal of software? The vast majority of engineers seem to believe the goal is for the software to be perfect, when actually it's to do things like catch cancer early or make money. Do you think a person who’s life was saved by software with footguns cares?

Lose the tunnel vision.


They are free to use them for themselves. But to use these apps on others can be life threathening in cases. And if not it's still unethical to sell such software when they are literally unable to describe what it can and cannot do.




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