[Mountain_Skies]

How many programmers are making those decisions on their own and how many are doing what their PM told them do to, at the command of ever higher ups? It's a weird trend to blame all tech outcomes on programmers who often have the least amount of control over what the systems the build are intended to do.

[pessimizer]

> how many are doing what their PM told them do to, at the command of ever higher ups?

There will always be sociopaths. The problem is the skilled people who can rationalize enabling them.

[scollet]

How do you account for downstream effects of charitable behavior where the hyperparameters have reached a complex state?