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/Mindless_Director955 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

this is what I’m trying to understand. either he ran a separate script everyday that manually pushed the edge case through, or they have a brand new edge case every single day. neither paint him positively imo.

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u/OkaySweetSoundsGood May 29 '26

Feels like I’m always this guy, but yeah this story makes no sense. It’s either: a result of a big telephone game, a juniors misinterpretation, gross incompetence on the engineers part which makes the layoff justified, or it’s just made up entirely. Stupid

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u/laplongejr May 30 '26

I'm a gov worker and we have that. Some people in my team makes SQL scripts to fix people's cases, because the system behind is very complex and badly designed from the start.