Howard Chu @ Symas on Nostr: Decades of "I heard you can make a lot of money in programming" ...
Decades of "I heard you can make a lot of money in programming"
If you're wondering why so many people who build software today are unethical,
may I introduce you to the previous three decades of people who built software unethically. 😕
Yeah I know. It's a hard pill to swallow. I spent most of my career thinking there were a few bad apples. I wasn't willing to admit the whole barrel was spoiled.
If we want to “fix software” we can't merely critique tools. Because ultimately our challenge is cultural in nature. *And real solutions lie in the humanities.*
Published at
2026-08-09 18:36:17 UTCEvent JSON
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