There was a new hire who was told to make a small change in a piece of server so...

		ahazred8ta on Aug 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "We ran out of columns" There was a new hire who was told to make a small change in a piece of server software, found the repo, read the docs, made the change, ran it in testing, and pushed to prod. Cue the 'senior engineer' screaming bloody blue murder because he'd been directly monkeypatching the servers for 3 years with no vc and no backups.

That’s… not a senior engineer. Whatever his title may have been.