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I am God's greatest programmer (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Make him unit test it all and then they can do changes that don't break.

[–] justJanne@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Often enough, the old code is so badly intertwined that it's impossible to actually test. Those are the moments where all you can do is nuke it from orbit.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well I was going for that... They will surrender before they do any changes.