samir, unbelievable

How many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?

Give me your best guess.

(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)

Anonymous poll

Poll

0–25%

392

6.3%

25–50%

1,544

24.9%

50–75%

3,001

48.4%

75–100%

1,264

20.4%

6,201 people voted.
Voting ended 20 June at 17:05.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

@samir

Is there such a thing as a pointless project that's not actively harmful?

20 June at 8:57 | Open on chaosfem.tw

Verain

@samir My very uneducated guess, around 50%. I hope less, I fear more.

20 June at 9:04 | Open on c.im

Adam Piggott

@samir I'm voting high because so many of my customers suffer from lost time, confidence and data because of badly-designed software; mostly UX but often locking data behind proprietary formats, or being difficult to backup.

20 June at 9:16 | Open on fosstodon.org

samir, unbelievable

Said it earlier, but I want to say it again.

If you are copying Google after, I dunno, 2008, or Facebook after 2012, or Netflix after 2016…

You are not copying a successful technology company. You are copying a gigantic corporation that makes most of its money through inertia, lobbying, and monopoly power.

Google didn’t use Kubernetes when it was a wee little search engine. Facebook didn’t use React until after it wanted to own the entire web.

You probably don’t need them either.

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