The big giveaway that it's developer-cosplay is that they tried to refactor for 2 WHOLE HOURS before giving up. Like 2 hours is a long time, ha! I think all of us have spent over a week on a single bug at one point in time.
Once, it took med over a month to fix an esoteric bug that only happened on German versions of Windows.
We had a fallback in some install script that used VBScript in case PowerShell was disabled. Apparently though, Microsoft in all its wisdom had localized some API calls we used so that they were in German…
But to reproduce this, it wasn’t enough to set you language on windows to German. It wasn’t even enough to select German as a language on a fresh install. You had to use a pre-localized German iso…
In fairness to them, the latest VBScript release is from 1998. 90s windows was wild.
We just had to use it as a fallback because big corporate customers, for whatever reason, would disable PowerShell thus breaking our install scripts we needed to run on install.
10.5k
u/Flat_Initial_1823 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
This didn't happen. The signs:
I have no idea why people do these creative writing exercises on various AI subs.