Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
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Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#2This reads a bit like an article from "the daily wtf", I used to frequent that one often [0].
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#3This reads a bit like an article from "the daily wtf", I used to frequent that one often [0]. [0] https://thedailywtf.com/
I still have their mug!
(Which my child consistently gives me shit for. "Dad, why we we have a cup with the F-word on it!?")
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#4This reads a bit like an article from "the daily wtf", I used to frequent that one often [0]. [0] https://thedailywtf.com/
I still have their mug! (Which my child consistently gives me shit for. "Dad, why we we have a cup with the F-word on it!?")
Sounds like your kid deserves a shoutout on dailystfu.com
In case it needs to be said, I'm kidding.
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#5This read to me as if someone asked a LLM to create a facebook urban legend about a bad programmer and prompted it with a couple bullet points.
If it contained the words “you’ll never believe what happened next…” they would be completely at-home.
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#6In the early wild-west days of ecommerce a friend working as a tester at a well known British supermarket discovered that the backend card-validation logic on their payment form was essentially "return true" ... good thing the volumes were miniscule I guess?
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#7This read to me as if someone asked a LLM to create a facebook urban legend about a bad programmer and prompted it with a couple bullet points. If it contained the words “you’ll never believe what happened next…” they would be completely at-home.
This is a cute little story with some technical merit - the brief description of the three bugs is kind of interesting.
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#8This read to me as if someone asked a LLM to create a facebook urban legend about a bad programmer and prompted it with a couple bullet points. If it contained the words “you’ll never believe what happened next…” they would be completely at-home.
I got the same vibe. I hate that I get those vibes wrong sometimes, but this story is so devoid of detail and life that it seems like the outline of a more realistic story.
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#9What’s that boast again,
“move fast and break things” …
Re: Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
#10This read to me as if someone asked a LLM to create a facebook urban legend about a bad programmer and prompted it with a couple bullet points. If it contained the words “you’ll never believe what happened next…” they would be completely at-home.
Dear Reg, it finally happened to me ...