[louis___]

This is scary if the same engineers, who promised us our data would be safe, not sold for showing us ads, that AI would not be racist, start playing with the earth's climate...

> We described what we had learned as Google engineers who worked on a well-intentioned but ultimately failed effort to cut the cost of renewable energy.

A "well-intentioned but ultimately failed" attempt at reversing climate change may be more complicated to correct than a bug in production.

[ganzuul]

Those things are caused by management dynamics imposed on publicly traded companies stemming from regulatory incentives; Not engineers. - It's Conway's Law all the way down.

[tcmart14]

For data, blame the stock holders and investors. Engineers are beholden to them for their jobs. Venture capitalists and shareholders want to leverage data analytics to turn a profit.

You could almost make an argument for AI. The same people push engineers to turn out code and products in short time spans. This is why Uncle Bob says it is okay for engineers to lie to improve the final product. A story he tells is of telling the General he is doing one thing when really he was refactoring. However, how much of this is done in industry, I don't know. But companies are known for pushing engineers to meet deadlines which means tests get skipped and bugs don't get fleshed out.