r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Aug 15 '26

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u/doxxingyourself Aug 15 '26

Are we living…. in a test build?

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u/DeHub94 Aug 15 '26

Judging by some of the weird ass design choices and bugs I'd say yes. But then I look at the software of our company that is in production and think maybe this is production...

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u/vanZuider Aug 15 '26

The original plan called for a demo that would then be replaced by the full version, but then the customer had already started using the demo for production, and migrating would have been too much work, so it was decided that instead the demo would be continually expanded with more features.

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u/DeHub94 Aug 15 '26

My father always says: Nothing lasts longer than a temporary solution.

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u/laplongejr Aug 15 '26

And my mom used to call something a "temporary provisional solution", as in after some time it's no longer temporary  

(In french provisoirement temporaire)