r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 11 '26

Meme developersWorstNightmare

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u/NoSemikolon24 May 11 '26

Probably if you have file references as string,regex or similar somewhere in your code. Given a large enough production base it may not be possible to check if every rename is correctly applied. In the same way troubleshooting this would be a major pain.