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Colleagues: If the code works, it’s good!

Me: Hmmm.

Managers, a week later: We’re starting everyone on a 50% on-call rotation because there’s so many bugs that the business is on fire.

Anyway, now I get upset and ask them to define “works”, which… they haven’t been able to do yet.






It's amazing that people put through changes without truly understanding what's going on.

I also don't understand how it's even done, like do you just guess until you get the result you kind of want? Then make up a story for your self explaining it?


> I also don't understand how it's even done

Ooh, I know this one! "I asked shatGPT to write some code that does X..."

Then they ask that same bullshit-generator to explain the code, or write a test, etc.




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