So It's Not Just Us

Legacy code Murphy's law Refactoring maintenance Technical debt production Unexpected errors Clean code System failure

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So It's Not Just Us

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Ah, the classic "clean one thing, break another" cascade failure. Just like when you refactor that legacy code and suddenly 47 unrelated tests fail. The oven glass shattered because it couldn't handle being clean for once - much like how production servers crash immediately after you apply those long-overdue security patches. Murphy's Law of maintenance: the moment something is pristine, it will self-destruct out of spite.

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