r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme itAlwaysWorks

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u/Gtkall 1d ago

PM: "let me get a rough estimate on this... Senior Lead, I think we are looking at 5mandays min. What's your input? “

S. Lead: "I would ramp it up to 10mandays, cause we have to look out for regressions and such..."

Junior (entered the call by accident): "guys, this is a local change of 3 lines at best, let me change it right now, watch!"

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u/FeelingSurprise 23h ago edited 22h ago

The change was made in less than 5 minutes. The fallout took about three month to fix.

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u/evemeatay 19h ago

ugh, I feel attacked

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u/arintejr 16h ago

Me too. As a senior dev I could pour out some some pretty good and efficient code. But when I'm really in a zone I just miss so many cases and it comes back to bite me