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by iClaudiusX 3007 days ago
I get the feeling based on comments here that there is a severe lack of ethical and critical thinking among engineers and developers. I recognize that this is only a vocal minority but the constant mantra of "move fast and break things", where getting rich at any cost is seen as a virtue, has made me extremely disillusioned with this brand of startup culture. Doubly so when people are trading stock tips on how to profit from tragedy by supporting the worst actors in the field.
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I'm not sure the "self-driving car industry" can survive these possible (inevitable?) future scenarios:

• Self-driving car kills child

• Hackers send self-driving car on wild ride

• Empty self-driving semi found in warehouse lot, GPS pirates make off with entire cargo

The dark, unspoken sentiment behind such comments is: "the end justifies the means". These programmers treat lives as currency for their vision of the future.
"Move fast and break things" is the motto of Facebook. It means that Facebook engineers are encouraged to make user-facing changes without red tape. If you are claiming that some self-driving car company has "move fast and break things" as their motto, then you are being willfully deceptive.
Have you not noticed that "move fast and break things" is essentially how the entire startup space functions? When a social media company does it, it's merely annoying. Do it with dangerous machines, and people die.