On being a faulty cog in a machine when the machine itself is faulty

I don’t entirely subscribe to the first paragraph – I’ve never worked at a place so dear to me that spurred me to spend time thinking about its architecture (beyond the usual rants). Other than that, spot on

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    So true! That’s why I never use ‘the R word’.

    Instead, I use synonyms:

    • performance tuning
    • proactive maintenance
    • fixed a subtle bug
    • fixed a failing test
    • corrected a CI/CD failure

    CI/CD failure is my favorite, because technically our CI/CD enforces a code review, so technically “we don’t like how this is written” counts as a CI/CD failure.