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

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@xenophora most people have to take software working on faith, which is part of why it's so infuriating to me to see the proliferation of slop code which I believe at best undermines trust and at worst degrades the quality and trustworthiness of everything by normalizing trust in the untrustworthy.

[xenophora@mastodon.art]

@earthshine

Preach.

Also, the fact that shit which should be free is proprietary, I guess. More and more walls in an ever-contracting garden. Then you find out "the good guys" are also all cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs and the Puffs are AI.

[sen@hachyderm.io]

@earthshine I've been doing this for 29 years now and if there was a much stronger word than 'decreased' I would have selected it.

[dervishpi@mastodon.social]

@earthshine I'd say it function as intended even better - as intended by the CEO of whatever company thinks it can extract more money from it, not as I want or expect it to function. The latter has dropped off a cliff.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@sen I wanted to avoid splitting or biasing the results by including "evaporated completely", but I considered it.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@Dervishpi to be clear, you should vote 'increased' if this is your opinion as I mean it literally when I say "as intended". As in it can be trusted to actually do what the programmers or designers of the software built it for, reliably and without errors. Whether you trust the programmers to have your best interest in mind is another matter.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

I'm actually quite surprised that of the NON-tech workers nobody so far has indicated they think it has increased... of course, this is still fedi, so....

[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)