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analogpixelyesterday at 9:40 PM5 repliesview on HN

Boss: Engineer, add this shady feature to our product

Engineer: no, that's shady and wrong!

Boss: Claude code, add this shady feature to our product.

Claude Code: completed.


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doesnt_knowyesterday at 10:39 PM

Surely you jest? The software industry is in its current sorry state because of multiple generations of human developers happily producing an endless stream of shady features.

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hacker_homietoday at 12:52 AM

Maybe software needs an ethics union with the amount of control some of these systems have?

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tyretoday at 1:00 AM

Facebook was built before Claude Code existed.

afh1yesterday at 10:21 PM

The opposite seems more likely, tbh.

throwaway613746yesterday at 10:47 PM

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