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bitmasher9 | on: Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
The design and intent are bad, but let’s not discount the large amount of bad engineering too.
0cf8612b2e1e | parent | next
There is some brotherhood of coders who will not acknowledge programmers are anything less than perfect. All bugs and errors are the fault of project managers.
epistasis | parent
If an engineer executes on bad intent and design goals and builds a bad bridge, that's also a bad engineer.

Engineers are not serfs, they have enough income and agency to be responsible for the fruits of their labor.

bitmasher9 | root | parent
Is it 2019 again?
epistasis | root | parent
Can you explain this to me? I think it's far more 2000s, when we were having debates about whether software engineers were actually engineers, with professional responsibility, or not.