#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:

Owl Eyes

@aeva great poll

Harkonnen2

I think the secred third adjective should be "irrelevant". My work is in fact overall irrelevant in terms of world condition.

Rupert V/

@aeva I've spent most of the last 8 years trying to crack a monopoly on submitting dental insurance claims. It only reduces the cost of a dentist visit by about $1, though.

Endy

@aeva Gotta love invasive health insurance marketing.

hex

@aeva they started telling me to do what I was told, so I stopped being able to provide value. I'm fine with the situation.

Following instructions from incompetent leadership is indistinguishable from sabotage.

Torbjörn Andersson

@aeva Tricky... on one hand, our product is used in healthcare. On the other hand, the higher ups are really into AI...

Gustavo

@aeva it depends on what my clients do with the buildings I plan. in most cases I hope good things are being done in those places, like children learning and people having homes. at the same time, I have no idea if some of the money from those buildings are going to corruption. well, one of my clients got into the most well known newscast in the country. a building I designed was shown to millions… in a corruption scandal news report

Flame

@aeva I guess the adjective is maybe "more energy efficent", which is of course a good thing, but I hesitate to use better due to it being a kind of indirect thing with it being more about monitoring energy and water usage.

a very weeny construct 💀

@aeva wow, um face value i didn't expect that's where this poll was headed. i browsed through some of your other responses to replies to this poll and you are just out there blasting much-needed hope and positivity into the inferno. you're awesome and thank you

aeva

@angelikatyborska do you use their tool to make their website?

Milly

@aeva "...less technologically dependent on the US/China." is probably correct right now. A while ago it was "better". A while while ago it was "reliable", I guess. Though c-suite people didn't want reliable they wanted corruption (I guess that's what the c stands for).

Lot's of the tech is quite indifferent and too low level to be either as it facilitate both. Only one project was for pure good but no one wanted to finance it, so it was paused.

Chris Siebenmann

@aeva As a system administrator in a university (in a CS department) I feel my day job is probably somewhere around neutral. I would like to think I am making the world ever so slightly better by keeping the lights on and helping researchers and graduate students learn new things but I'm not sure I can be that optimistic about the typical output of academia.

I mostly settle for 'at least my work isn't clearly making the world worse'.

aeva

@aanee well, moving chairs around on the deck is good exercise at least right

aeva

@cks yeah CS department makes it tricky to say