alt Hacker NewsI think the real tragedy here is that we can spend *all* of our time trying to improve the quality of our output, but it simply doesn't matter, because as long as the button is where the boss wants it to be and is the right color, all is right with the world.
Literally nothing else matters, and we (or at least I) have wasted a ton of time getting good at writing software.
As long as it continues to matter what the button actually does, I can't consider our effort to have been entirely wasted. We only have the misfortune to live in stupid and dangerous times, but good heavens, we're hardly the first in that, and hardly starved for examples from whom to learn.