[pcthrowaway]

I can't fathom how a software dev could not "care about users".

Like, what, are you building software in an ivory tower for yourself? It's such a self-centered attitude.

What do you care about other than 'tinkering'? Surely you have to care about at least delivering the bare minimum of results, or you wouldn't be valuable on a team.

[moffkalast]

Have you met users? All they do is break stuff and complain, injecting complexity because of their varying platforms that need to be supported and features they thought would be neat. Writing code for yourself is the best.

[spritefs]

> I can't fathom how a software dev could not "care about users".

In a large company, there are so many layers of abstraction between you and the users that it's difficult to see how something could benefit them.

Also on top of this, I don't think that showing users more ads is supposed to "benefit" them. There are so many orgs like this, where you hear this claptrap about "benefiting the user" when it's really just showing them more ads or something like that

At this point, what else is there to care about other than just writing good code and making sure it's correct?