alt Hacker News> The human who had their eyes and hands on the code has accountability.
They are not.
You can not go go back to a laid off person / one who quit and keep them accountable.
So this is absolutely not the case.
Devs are not accountable for their code.
> The human who had their eyes and hands on the code has accountability.
They are not.
You can not go go back to a laid off person / one who quit and keep them accountable.
So this is absolutely not the case.
Devs are not accountable for their code.
You're being reductive or just obtuse.
The company that employed the developer ultimately holds the accountability in the marketplace. The employed developer maintains (or loses) their job because of their accountability to their code (or, at least, they should). There's an economic incentive for all parties involved.
In the free/open-source world the incentives aren't economic, but they're still there.