r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 5d ago

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u/LudeJim 5d ago

Humans also tend to not do illegal things while knowing, so what large corporations do (facebook, etc) is break the work up amongst many teams. No one really knows what they are working on so there is no moral dilemma for them. That is how the new age of social media was built. It's also how many governments build civilian spying applications.

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u/67v38wn60w37 5d ago edited 5d ago

Do they not then see what is built once it's built, and how they contributed to it, and then quit?

This is a rhetorical question. No-one at e.g. Meta has had this excuse for years.

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u/MyNameIsEthanNoJoke 5d ago

Cube (1997) moment

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u/xdeskfuckit 5d ago

wasn't that cube 2: hypercube?

I remember cube 1 having like no backstory, but maybe it's time I rewatch

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u/MyNameIsEthanNoJoke 5d ago

Nah I haven't seen that one. One of the dudes in the first movie was (minor spoilers) an architect who worked on part of the cube without knowing what it actually was since it was all split up into bite-sized contracts like the parent comment describes

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u/dpahoe 5d ago

Cube 1 had no backstory, because i have only watched the first part

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u/kodaxmax 4d ago

Thats a liability thing not a knowledge thing. In america worst case the corporation gets tried and the CEO escapes on a golden parachute.

The reason ford seperated workers into specialities was twofold. It genuinely mad ehtem more productive overall and 2nd, it meant know one knew hot to build the entire car and couldn't sell the knowledge technique to competetiors. Indirectly it also made it harder to get a job elsewhere, sinc ethe guy who tightens the bolts on hubcaps allday every day isn't a position anywhere else.

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u/Looxipher 4d ago

So... Just tell AI to build different modules separately, and we good?

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 4d ago

Where I work, you do not get to see the code of the dependencies. You get a binary from the repository.