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The classic "it works on my machine" defense just got absolutely demolished by reality. Developer's smug confidence about their local environment immediately crumbles when the PM suggests the obvious solution—just ship your whole setup to production.
What's beautiful here is how the developer instantly pivots from "works perfectly" to demanding reproducible steps. Translation: "Please don't make me admit I have 47 environment variables hardcoded, a specific Node version from 2019, and three random npm packages installed globally that I forgot about."
The PM's response is pure gold because it exposes the fundamental problem—if you can't explain WHY it works on your machine, you haven't actually fixed anything. You've just found a configuration that accidentally works. Docker was invented specifically because of conversations like this.
