> The folks that taught the author should hang their head in shame that their student is producing such rubbish.
This is unnecessary and rude, you should hang your head in shame for that. I wish some people in this community weren't so reactionary and would engage with empathy instead of trying to personally roast people as soon as they don't agree with something.
Someone can tell a story on the internet, it doesn't have to be some rigorous experiment or proof.
Computer Science has a massive ethics crisis. Uncritical adulation and a total lack of accountability or consequence is part of that.
There is a massive misallocation of capital which is burning opportunity for our society. Users are getting terrible experiences and systems because people read this sort of thing and believe it. Trust in our technology is eroded and this has consequences for actual people. We have abandoned the standards that protected people and you have the view that these standards, or a shadow of them even, are unnecessary?
Someone has taught a generation that this is all ok, it isn't.
I don't disagree with some of the points are making here, but the main point of my own comment is your last sentence from above was mean-spirited and unnecessary.
You want to have a conversation about quality and ethics in computing and how this post can be pushing a narrative that is not in line with your views on this, I think that is worthwhile to have. But personal denigration of someone else isn't necessary in doing that.
This is unnecessary and rude, you should hang your head in shame for that. I wish some people in this community weren't so reactionary and would engage with empathy instead of trying to personally roast people as soon as they don't agree with something.
Someone can tell a story on the internet, it doesn't have to be some rigorous experiment or proof.