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"Tester: “Could you make this feature better?”
Tester: “But keep it fast.”
Tester: “…And don’t break anything else.”"
...I can't recall hearing any tester utter those phrases && I'm surrounded by them.
I'd use a puking emoji, had I !harbored such a contempt for those... /* Probably PTSD from testing them intensively at some point... That or they're too childish. 'Say it w/ words!'... any of those. */ -
this guy's got a linkedin and a whole fake-ass business
you can tell cuz he has like 4 jobs on linkedin he started in 2025 and one of his earliest comments on linkedin he actually wrote himself.. and he doesn't speak english anything like all his other content
someone must be buying this stuff if he put in so much effort into being a fake person. even 1.2k followers, linkedin recommendations/reviews by people who don't sound AI. the photo of him looks like a real person
I guess this is the modern version of a go-getter -
@Lensflare At least this AI bullshit is at least dev-related. I guess that is a minor improvement?
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Every damn time I touch a legacy codebase, it feels like I’m spelunking into an ancient temple of forgotten loops and cursed dependencies.
I find a “simple bug,” open the file, and 47 tabs later, I’m knee-deep in recursive functions that haven’t been touched since JavaScript ES5 was hip. Like… how does a one-line typo spawn three dependency hells, a circular import, and a forgotten regex that only runs on leap years? 🤯
And testers? Oh, they love it.
Tester: “Could you make this feature better?”
Me: “Sure.”
Tester: “But keep it fast.”
Me: “Cool.”
Tester: “…And don’t break anything else.”
…Me, opening the project:
???
Error 404: sanity not found
At this point, I’m convinced legacy codebases are just devs’ way of telling future generations:
“May the Stack Overflow be with you.” 😂
++ If you’ve ever fought a rogue npm installation that promised to fix things but added 12 new bugs instead. 🙃
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