[steve_adams_86]

This reminds me of something I read here the other day. There was an exchange about social implications of technology, and the idea of designing software based around our understanding of these matters more in the future.

Someone responded like "lol, sure, we can find some sociologists to start programming our apps", and I thought Damn. That's really missing the point. And it seems so arrogant. Like, not only do we laugh at the idea of people doing our jobs, we also need to laugh at the idea of the relevance of their fields.

Yet we really should depend on their insights to further our field, in my opinion. No profession truly stands alone, just like no person does.

I think we'll get better about this over time. Right now we've definitely got some growing pains.

[BobbyTables2]

Well put! Turns out “tech bros” aren’t that good at sociology either!

Even in computing, a profession dominated by scientists and engineers, has a lot of failing. Even the damn SPEC benchmarks don’t know to average numbers correctly.