Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word
Working for a startup is supposed to end with getting rich overnight, but not like this
the english syntax of this article gave me an aneurysm. was this ai?
Yeah I got two or three sentences in and just closed the window.
I took a look at the "coder" and said no thanks.
Buffalo.
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I'm struggling to understand this story.
I get the idea. But the way it was written has a "I heard from a guy who did a thing that looked like this..."
Maybe it's written that way to protect the privacy/trade secrets. But it also makes it hard to have any takeaways beyond why a dev team approved of pushing code like this to prod with minimal testing.
Someone wanted the Milton life.
It's like Superman III
That's a process error, not an individual's fault. Sounds like not a single person reviewed the code, they just said, "sounds good, deploy!" on a major production system.
You can be certain that there are tons of other bugs in the system that just have more subtle effects.
