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[–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welp... would be worse the other way round

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This is literally 99% of the job of programming. Making seemingly small mistakes that turn a working product into a complex mess of dysfunction. I kinda wish I could just program for fun now and no other reason. Maintaining software that is years old and worked on by very junior devs is...rough

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    The customer when my code does what the requirements said and not what the customer actually wanted in their heads.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    DWIM (Do What I Mean) shall be the whole of the (AI) Law. Have fun with that managers.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Recently picked up OCaml, and by golly, when I write in OCaml, those two are one and the same. It's hard to do the wrong thing in this language.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    My favorite is when I'm debugging a loop and cause the IDE to crash because of how much is being dumped to stdout

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