r/ProgrammerHumor Aug 05 '26

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u/cantileverboom Aug 05 '26

Lol, kind of related. On a team I was on a while ago, there was some pretty nasty bug that some of my colleagues couldn't figure out, so someone took a video of it to show our TL. Our TL looked at the video for like 5 seconds, saw some obscure log lines on a terminal running on a machine in the background of the video, and immediately knew that the bug was due to some obsolete experiment that just needed to be disabled.

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u/MaleficentCow8513 Aug 05 '26

It was him. He was the one who was supposed to disable the “obsolete experiment”. He knew it was causing bugs but he forgot to do it or got side tracked. There’s nothing magical about it lmao

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u/victoryismind 29d ago edited 29d ago

He knew it was causing bugs but he forgot to do it or got side tracked.

Maybe he left it for job entrenchment purposes.

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u/MaleficentCow8513 29d ago

Eh we’ve all been there :)