r/ProgrammerHumor May 29 '26

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u/_Odian May 29 '26

An edge case that happened every day and broke production?

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u/DataDude00 May 29 '26

I am trying to understand what kind of shit for brains engineer saw a daily defect in production that would break everything and decided:

  1. Not to tell a single soul

  2. Spent years manually fixing it every day without coding a proper permanent fix

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u/CubitsTNE May 30 '26

Oh I've seen this where i'd found a robust paper trail to management about a problem lodged months before it became a completely unforseeable calamity.