Software Engineers Need Accountability

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Software Engineers need to be held accountable for the code they write... Too many people are careless in this industry. I think a lot of the problems regarding quality and security would be mitigated by swift legal action. If there was a real risk of being thrown in prison or sued, I imagine people would be more likely to test their code before they ship it to end users. It is not okay to be bad at your job, some mistakes should not be made.

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A screenshot of a social media post argues that software engineers should face prison or lawsuits for careless code. The joke is an exaggerated, darkly comic proposal that legal punishment would force developers to test software more carefully, and it is used as a reaction to bugs, security flaws, or bad programming. EN: A screenshot of a social media post argues that software engineers should face prison or lawsuits for careless code. The joke is an exaggerated, darkly comic proposal that legal punishment would force developers to test software more carefully, and it is used as a reaction to bugs, security flaws, or bad programming.

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