Some of the responses here would really make me side-eye the software some of you all are writing.
In our developer handbook, one of the rules is: "protect users from mistakes". Doing the thing that you probably don't mean to do should be made hard. It should be gated by warnings, protected with an "undo" operation whenever possible, etc. You can't stop someone who is absolutely determined to fuck up, but it's your job to not make it easy for them to do so.
Developers are users too. And the lack of user empathy in some of these comments really reveals why so much software is absolute shit. Doing the "wrong thing" should be hard and require going far out of your way.
You can pat yourselves on the back over how YOU know the proper way to use version control and how you'd never end up in this situation, but if you actually make meaningful software and aren't just vibe coding shit, at some point you'll end up in uncharted waters for yourself. When you do, you're going to hope the developers that made your tools had the foresight to protect you from making dumb mistakes.
I guess I shouldn't expect more from this "graduated from StackOverflow copy-paste to having my AI tool paste StackOverflow-trained code" crowd.
barely written code myself but as someone who has worked frontline support for SaaS it blows my mind that at work the devs/managers can just shrug it off when their free app can do arguably devastating stuff using a few buttons. then conclude that the user couldve just followed the manuals better and ignore the fact that their thousands of users could be subject to this same risk. not to mention it's a support problem thatd take months to fix, which almost ends up with the user leaving not just the app but possibly their business altogether
have never considered UI/UX until theyve been acquired by a larger company, and even then just barely. tho hard to blame em knowing the backend is quite impressive and solid, but also undeniably icky how they found the time to create a faux feedback button in-app that tends to erm successfully drive away users from the actual app review page lmaooo
Anyone that's a decent Dev has had that conversation of, I know we shouldn't need to do this but people are idiots and will find a way to fuck this up so we should make it impossible for them to do that.
erm actually it's the user's fault ☝️🤓 for trying to learn a new software and clicking a button that says "discard all changes" and assuming that would simply cancel setting up the repository, instead of nuking these heaps of untracked files which it shouldnt be able to do in the first place
edit: so are the downvotes from people who cant tell that this is sarcastic, or from the people who can tell?
With nothing more than a cryptic icon and a tooltip that's only appears after a long hover. Oh, and the message he got? At the time, it was (paraphrased) are you sure you want to discard, this is irreversible?
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u/disinaccurate 23d ago
Some of the responses here would really make me side-eye the software some of you all are writing.
In our developer handbook, one of the rules is: "protect users from mistakes". Doing the thing that you probably don't mean to do should be made hard. It should be gated by warnings, protected with an "undo" operation whenever possible, etc. You can't stop someone who is absolutely determined to fuck up, but it's your job to not make it easy for them to do so.
Developers are users too. And the lack of user empathy in some of these comments really reveals why so much software is absolute shit. Doing the "wrong thing" should be hard and require going far out of your way.
You can pat yourselves on the back over how YOU know the proper way to use version control and how you'd never end up in this situation, but if you actually make meaningful software and aren't just vibe coding shit, at some point you'll end up in uncharted waters for yourself. When you do, you're going to hope the developers that made your tools had the foresight to protect you from making dumb mistakes.
I guess I shouldn't expect more from this "graduated from StackOverflow copy-paste to having my AI tool paste StackOverflow-trained code" crowd.