| ▲ | analogpixel 14 hours ago |
| Boss: Engineer, add this shady feature to our product Engineer: no, that's shady and wrong! Boss: Claude code, add this shady feature to our product. Claude Code: completed. |
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| ▲ | doesnt_know 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Surely you jest? The software industry is in its current sorry state because of multiple generations of human developers happily producing an endless stream of shady features. |
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| ▲ | analogpixel 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have a theory, that the "FANG" companies pay such high salaries in compensation for making those devs implement shady features that are harmful to everyone except the bottom line of the company. | | |
| ▲ | julianlam 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's hardly a theory when the converse is plainly true. Look up similar jobs for academia, government, or NFP/Charities. They're (on paper) driven by their mission, not by profit, and the salaries match that goal. | |
| ▲ | tokioyoyo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There are countless low wage engineering jobs implementing shady features. Any random consulting / agency works on such products too. | |
| ▲ | eswdd 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If that\s true then those devs should not complain if people attack them verbally over it - that\s what they are getting paid for, right? | |
| ▲ | renewiltord 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The joke here is that the majority of FAANG engineers are actually doing anything but saying "I'm blocked on" every week. |
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| ▲ | 999900000999 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | TBF, you can train up a junior software engineer in 6 months. Don't act like we're some esteemed class of craftsmen. |
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| ▲ | afh1 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The opposite seems more likely, tbh. |
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| ▲ | hacker_homie 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe software needs an ethics union with the amount of control some of these systems have? |
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| ▲ | inetknght 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | What, you mean like real engineers? Nah. Give us the money, but not the responsibility! |
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| ▲ | tyre 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Facebook was built before Claude Code existed. |
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| ▲ | throwaway613746 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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