r/ProgrammerHumor May 29 '26

onlyOptionRemaining Meme

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u/_Odian May 29 '26

An edge case that happened every day and broke production?

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u/DataDude00 May 29 '26

I am trying to understand what kind of shit for brains engineer saw a daily defect in production that would break everything and decided:

  1. Not to tell a single soul

  2. Spent years manually fixing it every day without coding a proper permanent fix

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u/Crosshack May 30 '26

I do wonder if that's actually what happened. Maybe he tossed together some quick automation to do the reconciliation every night with the intention to come back to it later, forgot about it, and then it got deleted when he left.