273: Ethical Lines and Career Crossroads - Listener Questions

What would you do if your manager asked you to make the audit trail editable? Why would Carol rather be evil? And would you still want to be a software engineer in five years, or is it finally time to buy the ice cream truck? This week the hosts answer listener questions on ethical lines, career pivots, and the future of software engineering.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• starry-night - the syntax highlighter behind Ben's new blog API.
• DEF CON - the hacking conference behind the red-teaming and social-engineering discussion.
• 271: Slop Is the New Clean - the earlier discussion of Uncle Bob and Matt Pocock's interview that Ben revisits.

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Full show notes and transcript here.