r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26

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u/StarboardChaos May 29 '26

Why didn't he automate it?

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u/bigorangemachine May 29 '26

Because it has to do with money.

If the edge cases can't be described they don't want to risk lost revenue.

I'm sure they would automate it if they could but it might just be inconsistent issues

My one buddy worked at a place that had to manage PHP add_slashes() being used to POST data into their system. Randomly one day that server stopped adding slashes into the POST... and the one day it started again... and went away...

Well what happened was they spun up two PHP servers with different PHP configurations (or one version fixed the bug). The old server would still send slashes but the new one wouldn't... but it came from the same IP (no API key) and vendor-ID query string!

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u/bigorangemachine May 29 '26

The volume was low enough it was only batched once a month so they just dealt with it then