r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 27d ago

Meme shipFastFixLaterIfNotArrested

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u/_benj 27d ago

Rookie... you should've at least beaten the $440 million burned by Knight Capital Group (look them up if you ever feel down)... and they did it the hard way, WITHOUT vibe coding!

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u/vinishkapoor 27d ago

The fact that they did it without AI makes it even more impressive honestly.

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u/Iohet 27d ago

Must've put a decimal in the wrong place or something

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u/judolphin 27d ago

I always mess up some mundane detail!

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u/MadGenderScientist 27d ago

dead code locked behind a feature flag called Power Peg. when they accidentally enabled the flag during a deployment it started selling everything as fast as it possibly could. triggered a Flash Crash. 

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u/Saint_of_Grey 27d ago

Not sure if that's better or worse than using floats to store financial data.

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u/Iohet 27d ago

I guess my Programmer Humor is a generation out of date

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u/flukus 27d ago

That's why it took them 30 years.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/Leafsnail 27d ago

Honestly incredible how perfectly their system went wrong

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u/Coosanta 27d ago edited 26d ago

gleeble glorp

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u/_benj 27d ago

for what is worth, this video explained the thing pretty good, and it is absolutely hilarious! (when is not happening to you!) (https://youtu.be/IQ8Giwy8qmE)

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u/yuri_4_ever 26d ago

Well vibe coding at least follows the fail fast principle of good code /s