New PhD dissertation finds software engineers rarely blow the whistle on ethical lapses
guzdial · x · 2026-10-20
Mark Guzdial profiles Dr. Aadarsh Padiyath's completed dissertation on critical consciousness in computing education. His final study interviewed developers who saw ethical lapses at their companies: contrary to the whistleblower narrative students imagined, real practitioners resolved issues without whistleblowing. The work covers GenAI contracts, adversarial thinking, and measuring critical reflection and agency, completing a theory-to-measurement-to-practice arc from classroom to workplace.
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