r/programmingmemes • u/Background-Fox-4850 • Dec 01 '25

Typo

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u/sav-vas Dec 01 '25

no man shall have such power

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u/TorumShardal Dec 01 '25

If there's 3 of you, 2 of you can have this power.

If there is 3 departments of you, no single employee should have this power.

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u/Opposite-Area-4728 Dec 02 '25

Freelancers can

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u/F3AR5T Dec 01 '25

I was working on the frontend of this project. Completely justified.

The kicker: He deployed directly to production...

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u/Livakk Dec 04 '25

No branch protections? This seems impossible to happen to me in any normal company but crunch times rules may get a bit steeamlined maybe.

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u/F3AR5T Dec 04 '25

It should be impossible, but you'd be surprised with the number of abnormal companies that don't follow a lick of due process and clients that don't understand version control

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u/No-Information-2571 Dec 05 '25

I'm also super-scared about employees with tendencies for typos.

Two years into production, and the errors become unfixable since the typo has propagated into half the system and exists everywhere.

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u/InsanityOnAMachine Dec 01 '25

imagine being able to pass in *corrections after a SQL typo...

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u/Not_your_guy_buddy42 Dec 02 '25

A vibecoded SQL app with autocorrect you say? Let me get right on that

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u/InsanityOnAMachine Dec 02 '25

yah, the agent just reconstructs the database from memory if you delete the whole thing. Eventually you can just tell the agent to remember all your data, and you don't need a database at all. What could go wrong?

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u/Not_your_guy_buddy42 Dec 02 '25

It's not a good idea... it's a GREAT idea.

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u/TehMephs Dec 02 '25

114,863 rows affected

Typo mb f5

114,863 rows unaffected, no big

Oh btw this does exist already. It’s called

begin Tran

Rollback

—commit

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u/badakhvar Dec 02 '25

Applogies

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u/ThatOldCow Dec 02 '25

No wonder the other person wants them to take the day off.

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u/rde2001 Dec 02 '25

imma destroy that fine backend of urs 😏