Critical Engineering 1

Tenent 1 of the Critical Engineering states that the Critical Engineer must constantly consider the tools that they use, and the dangers associated with these tools. They must constantly test and expose the functioning of these tools, so that they may be both trusted and improved.

I find this tenant compelling because it demands constant vigilance towards tools, which we often blindly trust despite their essential role in human progress. This is especially true in today’s digital world, where a weakness in a piece of code can be found and abused  from anywhere on earth.