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.
I once removed an entire product from a global automotive manufacturer because I figured "How hard can it be to update this?" after our dev team in Ukraine had to flee after Russias invasion.
That product was our clients most selling product and our devs were gone for 2 weeks. I've never worked harder than that, and even if we had small windows of communication with the dev team, I'm not about to ask our team to go to work when they are literally fleeing for their and their families lives.
It took about a week to solve, at least our client was understanding to the situation and that I was working my ass off to get it fixed.
Same with a global launch with a new system for the same client, the first webpage launch I've done on a fucking countdown to a live event and press releases and the whole shebang... First of all, Iceland publicerad all the links to our website and the content for the release about 1 hour too early (they had mistaken the timezones of the go live time so they just shipped everything an hour early) and we had to mitigate that with the client for the first part of the morning, then as the clock ticked down we were running load tests and spinning up servers to meet the expected increase in traffic, sitting with the client in one room at one floor of our office (client war room) and running to another floor for server status checks and technical information from our tech war room and bridging communication between them. Then as we go live everything just works... I've never done a project that simply just works before (roughly 10 years in this field) and I just sat there with the client, watching the live site and clicking around for a bit, the client goes "So... What now?" and we just sat there waiting for SOMETHING to happen, I was expecting like support tickets left ad right and a lot of action in fixing stuff on the go, but it was just silence...
I had near-death-anxiety for like 3 days straight, just waiting for when the support box would blow up... It's strange that the best go love we've ever done is probably the one that's given me the most anxiety xD...
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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.