[xg15]

> generating value for customers through code.

Generating value for the shareholders and/or investors, not the customers. I suspect this is the next bitter lesson for developers.

[whiplash451]

Investors don’t make money if the customers don’t

[keybored]

Yes, there you go. The users are just a propaganda proxy.

The bitter lesson is that making profit is the only directive.

[disgruntledphd2]

I find it odd that this was ever forgotten.

[xen2xen1]

People like to see everything as self expression. In reality, a job is a job, and you're there to make money for someone else.