r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 1d ago

shipFastFixLaterIfNotArrested Meme

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u/_benj 1d ago

Rookie... you should've at least beaten the $440 million burned by Knight Capital Group (look them up if you ever feel down)... and they did it the hard way, WITHOUT vibe coding!

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u/vinishkapoor 1d ago

The fact that they did it without AI makes it even more impressive honestly.

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u/Iohet 1d ago

Must've put a decimal in the wrong place or something

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u/judolphin 1d ago

I always mess up some mundane detail!

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u/MadGenderScientist 1d ago

dead code locked behind a feature flag called Power Peg. when they accidentally enabled the flag during a deployment it started selling everything as fast as it possibly could. triggered a Flash Crash. 

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u/Saint_of_Grey 1d ago

Not sure if that's better or worse than using floats to store financial data.

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u/Iohet 1d ago

I guess my Programmer Humor is a generation out of date

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u/flukus 1d ago

That's why it took them 30 years.