Comment by honestthrow1
6 days ago
I'm not blindly blaming the bottom developer. I've played my role in past waves as well as many other developers. I'm not a CEO, so I don't know how to communicate this same message to a CEO. But as a developer, I know I've been an ignorant participant in the past. Willfully or not. And I can change my role in the next coming wave.
We developers are not blameless. If we accept that we are playing a role; then we can be proactive in preventing this and influencing the direction things go. CEOs need developers to achieve what they want.
I'm not saying it's easy. I won't even hold it against folks that decide to go in a separate direction than mine. But I at least hope we can be open about the impact we each have; and that we are not powerless here.
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This sounds like the "only following orders" argument.
_If_ developers _collectively_ were to quit jobs that don't line up with their morals and ethics, we _might_ see a change. I'm not saying this is an easy decision to make, and I definitely don't want to judge someone who decides to take a higher paying job, but there's potential here to shift the direction AI is taking.
Have you seen the job market recently.
I mean, I do agree with the only following orders part. But I guess we humans are nuanced. We aren't logical but emotional beings.
You are saying its not easy to leave a job? That's so understating it
Imagine a family where the father has to worry that food might not be on their young daughter's table because he was 'logical', I guess, I don't want to be logical in such scenario where my loved ones suffer because of some greater good which might not even get to fruition anyway. (Stopping ai, in my pessimistic point of view, it won't)
Perhaps the union could take a stand.