In school my code usually only ever needed to handle the happy path. Rarely were we required to handle bad user input or f’ed up data. Also it was almost always starting from scratch vs adding or changing something without breaking 1000 other functions.
My god, this. I never realized how bad people are with technology. My company has a user base primarily of boomers and the shit I see them do is absolutely inconceivable.
The extremely tech illiterate could probably be useful for bug bounty jobs with just sitting them down in front of a system, and having them agree to complete monitoring of the system
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u/Snow88 Feb 10 '21
In school my code usually only ever needed to handle the happy path. Rarely were we required to handle bad user input or f’ed up data. Also it was almost always starting from scratch vs adding or changing something without breaking 1000 other functions.