I WORK IN TECH and over the last 5 years, my general level of confidence in software to function as intended has...

[sen@hachyderm.io]

@earthshine Haha yes, that is pretty much how I feel. There are exceptions, but in general my confidence in software to function as described has evaporated almost completely.

[dipolecat@yiff.life]

@earthshine I voted in "I don't work in tech", but I used to. 4 years at an IT help desk and a short 8 months as a software dev before becoming disabled and unable to work

[kzad_bhat@chaos.social]

@sen @earthshine find something good that works and does 110% of what I expect, and three days later I start looking from left to right like Scratch from Ice Age when he has his acorn:

where is the backdoor.
how are they going to put ads in here.
when will this software stop doing the reason why I got interested in it in the first place.

[randomdamage@infosec.exchange]

@earthshine I thought it couldn't get any worse, yet here we are.

[xorlou@lgbtqia.space]

@earthshine it's a nice surprise when software just works the first time

[philsplace@mastodon.sdf.org]

@earthshine @drwho

Just to note: I assume this is about the software I use… not the software I write.

[effken_von_nebenan@mastodon.social]

@earthshine non tech here.

As far as I know from my point of view the term "a computer is only just as intelligent as it's user /programmer" prooves way too often.
And, no offense, we are all biased. We are all just seeing one part of the truth and not the whole picture. Too many male IT persons created code which is partly sexist. Too many white people created code that's partly racist. And now too many created Code that's hungry for money and doesn't care for people or their rights or needs

[dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org]

@earthshine Yeah fedi software is many things, but...

[hearth@plush.city]

@earthshine I don't know if we count as working in tech

we do hardware and *extremely* avoid software, which is not the tech most people think of when talking about working in tech
-F

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@Hearth its tech adjacent enough i guess it depends on how familiar or opinionated you are about it.

[mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@earthshine What confidence?

[tommorris@mastodon.social]

@earthshine it was low to start with, and it keeps plumbing new depths

[locha@fediscience.org]

@earthshine And it’s not due to what I saw; it’s due to software quality degrading (at least outside of FOSS)

[justin@mastodon.tacoma.community]

@earthshine
I'd even say "strongly decreased"

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@MxAlba now I think i need to run this on like Instagram or something to see the difference in sample bias lol

[furrybeta@shark.community]

@twobiscuits @earthshine Lotus 1-2-3, and Ashton-Tate Multimate and dBase. Worked great on an Intel 286 with 2MB ram

[tokamak@mastodon.art]

@earthshine Gamedev isn't tech compared to most answering this poll, but seeing people with experience getting discarded when the C-suite didn't make their millions has put us where we are now in the industry, and it suuucks.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@earthshine tbf, I think certain types of software have been hit harder than others. The sheer number of pieces of software I consider so unreliable that I will actively encourage people not to use it has gone way up since early 2021. The better players are still net trustworthy, but less so.

Also probably worth noting that while I don't work in tech, I know a decent amount about software development compared to non-technical people and the one time I felt confident enough to apply to work in tech was when thousands of people being laid off became the norm.

[hecks@slime.computer]

@earthshine My question of "As who intended?" leans me toward "no change"