> generating value for customers through code.
Generating value for the shareholders and/or investors, not the customers. I suspect this is the next bitter lesson for developers.
Yes, there you go. The users are just a propaganda proxy.
The bitter lesson is that making profit is the only directive.
I find it odd that this was ever forgotten.
People like to see everything as self expression. In reality, a job is a job, and you're there to make money for someone else.