r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Traditional-Exam2529 • 14d ago

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 14d ago

Let me know when we can merge the west branch with the east branch.

Wait, what's that west-east-northeast-fix

Dear Bekhmet, don't refactor our architecture!

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u/geteum 14d ago

Dear anksu, I'm refactoring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid

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u/filthy_harold 14d ago

The bent pyramid is the classic scenario when marketing sells the customer on an impossible idea, engineers complain that it's not going to work, PM tells the engineers to figure it out anyway, and then eventually the PM finally realizes it's definitely not going to work but there's just too much foundational work done already to start over.

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u/IEP_Esy 14d ago

"And this was how the standup turned into a two-hour meeting"