> The scariest to me is on professional standards and ethics

OK. What standards and ethics would you recommend we adhere to?

First, do no harm? One, define harm. If I'm depriving a corporation of money by automating something for consumers, is that harm? How about if I write a clone of netcat, am I liable for its use in nefarious scanning of ports?

Thou shalt not write bugs? That would be awesome, were it possible. I can't think of many developers who wouldn't want to get to this point, assuming of course it didn't result in a 1 month project plan to write a sorting algorithm.

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