Images of how our profession, when not practiced properly, can also be a danger to the lives of many people (chat-to.dev)
from gafanhoto@leminal.space to programming@programming.dev on 09 Oct 2024 17:57
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SorteKanin@feddit.dk on 09 Oct 2024 22:03 collapse

While there certainly is some blame on the programmers (to the extent that it is useful to even assign blame), I would say it is hardly fair to blame programmers for most mistakes.

Bugs are a fact of life - the presence of bugs can hardly be blamed on a specific programmer. Rather, it is a result of the resources assigned to a project and its quality assurance. Yes, at the end of the day it comes down to the lines of code written, but everything and anyone involved in the process up to that point (like designers, project managers, people managers and of course executives at the top) are to blame as well. Especially the decision-makers who deprioritized security or quality assurance are to blame, much more so than the programmer who wrote the line.