kinonionioa

It's a pure waste either way.

I believe you. Code review takes me ten minutes a day, but trying to get ChatGPT to do anything useful is a full-time job.

I don't get any time off. My full-time job is cleaning up after people who've been using ChatGPT.

Writing good code requires good taste. Taste is subjective and cannot be easily codified. That doesn't make it arbitrary. Ask ten people about their favorite movie and they'll name ten different films, but I'd wager no one will say "Gigli".

A modular architecture will prevent changes to one system from breaking other systems.

People should do the right thing no matter what. "Not my job" is not a valid excuse for supporting slavery. But not everyone is equally culpable. The people who shirked their duties are worse than those who failed to pick them up.

>However we live in a culture which has so long suppressed any discussion of where our products come from that no discussion of this is part of our normal lives.

It's also not our jobs. If something is so destructive that I have an obligation to boycott it, it should be illegal. It's the government's job to create and enforce sensible policies to protect the innocent. That's why they take a third of my paycheck.

But they've largely abrogated that responsibility, with a lot of help from corrupt businesses. Now it's my job to ensure not too many child slaves were harmed in the making of my T-shirt.

Most people are hypocrites. That's one reason we choose to bind ourselves with laws. The fact that everyone is individually inclined to go against their values is an argument for collective action.

People who complain about "virtue signaling" are nearly always ridiculous. They try to deflect criticism of their own moral failings with vague insinuations of hypocrisy. They mock children for actually holding the values our society claims to teach them. They virtue signal about how much they hate virtue signaling, yet ignore that the most spectacular virtue signaling comes from their "side". Like this:

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-...

That doesn't make it a dog whistle. Everyone knows that accusing someone of virtue signaling is accusing them of being a champagne socialist. The meaning is not hidden.

This is a dog whistle:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-an...

Most people won't recognize the riff on the Fourteen Words, but those who do will recognize the call for genocide.