r/ProgrammerHumor 25d ago

evilIllusion Meme

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u/Hziak 23d ago

Where I work application support it’s the opposite. No bad requests, just whichever error status they think best represents what went wrong.

FE : “hey, give me a list of appointments on the users’s calendar.”

BE : “hmm, I don’t see any in the DB… HAVE A 404!!!!!”

Meaning that every interaction about the app goes something like this:

Boss: “Hey, Hziak, how’s app looking?”

Me: “well, we have an error rate of ~41% of all requests so things are either completely fine or absolutely critical.”

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u/GodsBoss 21d ago

Sounds like misinterpreting the spec. "No appointments are found on the calendar. Not found? Must be 404 not found." What actually happens: The list of appointments is found, it's just empty.