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Discussion on: Developers: Mercenaries for hire?

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Jakob Christensen • Edited

I very much believe that we as developers are responsible for the products that we create. So many bad things have happened and do happen because people just do what they are told to.

Years back I left the software business to work in a job where my software is supposed to help people instead of working for companies that are just in it for the money.

Also see my short article on responsibility as developers: dev.to/t4rzsan/be-a-responsible-de...

I think you did well in following your guts and declining the job.

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Arden de Raaij

So many bad things have happened and do happen because people just do what they are told to.. That's very true and something I also tried to put into wording in my previous blogpost: dev.to/ardennl/we-never-imagined-ccb.

And that article about the responsibility of developers is RIGHT on the money. Thank you for sharing that.

I'm also happy I declined although I do have to admit, I had to think about it and discuss it with a few people around me before I made up my mind.