RE: https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115950673345256369
It's not often I find myself disagreeing with mhoye, but this is one of those instances - not about the results, where I agree perfectly, but about the reasons.
As I see it, we as a profession have allowed all of the ways we can relate with the users of the software we write to be shoved aside, so that the only way most people experience software is as a contract. The rest follows.
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