alt Hacker News> Please stop blaming the devs. You're laundering blame. Almost no detail of a web site or app is ever up to the devs alone.
If a bridge engineer is asked to build a bridge that would collapse under its own weight, they will refuse. Why should it be different for software engineers?
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nikanj • last Sunday at 9:23 PM
Because bridge engineers can be sued if the bridge kills people
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sublinear • last Sunday at 9:21 PM
It's a website and not a bridge. Based on the description given, it's not a critical website either. If it was, the requirements would have specified it must be built differently.
You're not even arguing with me BTW. You're arguing against the entire premise of running a business. Priorities are not going to necessarily be what you value most.
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Because software engineers aren't real engineers. A real engineer has liability insurance.