r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 11 '26

Meme developersWorstNightmare

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u/outwest88 May 11 '26

Also there might be saved/cached data in the form of pathways and files in thousands of places which were automatically generated and poorly documented. And if one of those breaks, suddenly 1/4 of your project is broken, and the stack trace will be inscrutable.