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by bee_rider 472 days ago
I dunno, the ethics depends on the situation, right?

If the customer asks for shoddy workmanship in a system that will have some safety critical application that will hurt the general public, you have a the engineer’s ethical obligation to blow the whistle.

If the customer asks for shoddy workmanship because they don’t care to prioritize documentation and robustness in their ad system, that’s management’s prerogative. The customer can be trusted to represent themselves.