Do You Want Your Tech Profitable, Ethical, Useful or Reliable?

Back in 2007, one of my computer science professors asked the class: „What is good software“? "Reliable!“, "Interesting to build!“, "Financially successful!“. Back then, I was wondering: "Who of us is right?"

More than a decade later, I have learned that these different answers are at the heart of some of the most enduring conflicts in how technology is built and used. I also learned how these conflicts are consistently decided, and why. And sometimes, that scares me.