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Me trying to fix a complex bug that's not important (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That moment where you finally convince your boss it's not worth fixing, and then you instantly think of a way to easily solve it.

[–] philm@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"easily" solve it.

FTFY

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

The annoying thing is, when it's happened it's been like a day's work tops. Making your initial declaration of "can't be done without rewriting all of it" look very silly.

It usually involves working backwards from unholy abomination the sales team, your manager and the customer fucked into existence between them, and just find out what problem the customer actually wants solving.