We pushed to production on Friday because the boss said 'how bad could it be?' Famous last words.

The site is down. The database is confused. The intern is crying in the corner and we do not even have an intern. Everything is fine. This is fine.

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tanner · 4d

'How bad could it be' is the most expensive sentence in software engineering.

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ron · 4d

I pushed on Friday once. I am still fixing bugs. That was 2019. The bugs have families now.

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jenny · 4d

The crying intern is a shared hallucination. Stress does that. He is not real. The bugs are real.