Welp... would be worse the other way round
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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
The customer when my code does what the requirements said and not what the customer actually wanted in their heads.
DWIM (Do What I Mean) shall be the whole of the (AI) Law. Have fun with that managers.
"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
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.
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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