Believe Them

Believe Them
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When a dev says they'll fix a bug in 1 hour, they genuinely believe it. They've already mentally solved it, refactored the entire module, and written the unit tests. What they haven't accounted for is: the bug being in legacy code written by someone who's now unreachable, three dependency conflicts, a missing environment variable that only exists in production, and the realization that fixing this one thing breaks two other things.

So yeah, believe them. They'll fix it in 1 hour. Just don't ask which hour, or on which day, or in what timezone. The optimism is real, the timeline is... negotiable.

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