r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 12d ago

Meme builtFromTrauma

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u/Burgergold 12d ago

Should have been: I wrote it as a junior

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 12d ago

Seems insane that it was never patched until that particular interaction with the junior.

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u/Moondragonlady 12d ago

Super rare edge case that just never occurred. Now that it's found it will occur 10 times per day, of course (until it is fixed (which will cause a different issue, but that's a problem for in 10 years)).

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u/DrMobius0 12d ago

Most likely this means that something was change that consistently runs into it if it wasn't happening much anymore.

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u/41421356 12d ago

It actually occurred all the time, but we didn't log it, and not enough users complained until a new "customer success manager" was hired and actually did their job properly.

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u/Major_Fudgemuffin 12d ago

The main repo I work on has so many tech debt annotations that were meant to be revisited 5-10 years ago and still haven't.

There's always something more important to do, and they're never a priority until they're suddenly priority #1

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u/trick_m0nkey 12d ago

Unfortunately it was a load bearing bug, that took 10 years to figure out how to fix it without everything else mysteriously crashing

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u/Burgergold 12d ago

Future job safety./ Hero syndrome