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Are you sympathetic to a doctor who specialized in surgery and now always recommends surgery, even for a common cold? Or would you say they are in the wrong job
by luckylion 3mo ago
Are you sympathetic to a doctor who specialized in surgery and now always recommends surgery, even for a common cold? Or would you say they are in the wrong job, if they are anywhere but surgery?
- hext 3mo agoWell that's horribly reductive. I certainly do not expect everyone in a given field to know absolutely everything there is to know in that field. Crazy enough, I also hold doctors and surgeons to higher standards than web developers.
- lukan 3mo agoIf those web developers fail a critical government service, or online pharmacy or financial service, it can mess up peoples life pretty badly as well.
- yesco 3mo agoYes it's truly a shame when the people responsible for critical infrastructure only hire the cheap inexperienced software engineers to build it. Much like how relying on a resident nurse instead of a cardiologist when you are experiencing a heart attack can end your life pretty badly as well.
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- shnock 3mo agoRidiculous example that does nothing to argue the original, fair point. Obviously health interventions demand more finely tuned solutions than information technology FWIW, maintaining at least a moderate degree of empathy even in systemically frustrating situations is good for the empathizer and thus in one’s interest