A president burning the amazon who came into power with the help of WhatsApp and YouTube undermining rational public debate is one of many examples of software craft being way too obsessed with building things right instead of building the right thing.
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A) It is harder, indeed. B) I don’t expect SW people to be solely responsible for building the right thing, but they would be way more effective and responsible if they would take into account the effects of their work on the society.
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Industrial SW development went a long way to tear down the walls between user/product people and devs. Let’s not stop at building the right thing for the user.
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