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Content My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase So our summer intern (who I'm 90 sure is a professional shitposter moonlighting as a dev) just saved our entire authentication service by being, well, an absolute agent of chaos. Background: We have this legacy auth system that's been running since before TikTok existed. No one touches it. It's documented in ancient Sanskrit and COBOL comments. The last guy who understood it fully left to become a yoga instructor in Peru. Enter our intern. First week, he asks why our commit messages are so boring. Starts adding memes to his. Whatever, right? Then he begins leaving comments in the codebase like: This function is older than me and probably pays taxes TODO: Ask if this while loop has health insurance Here lies Sarah's hopes and dreams (2019-2022), killed by this recursive call The senior devs were split between horrified and amused. But here's where it gets good. He's reading through the auth code (because "the commit messages here are too normal, sus") and adds this gem: yo why this token validation looking kinda thicc though fr fr no cap this base64 decode bussin wait... hold up... this ain't bussin at all Turns out his Gen Z spider-sense wasn't just tingling for the memes. Man actually found a validation bypass that's been lurking in our code since Obama's first term. The kind of bug that makes security auditors wake up in cold sweats. The best part? His Jira ticket title: "Auth be acting mad sus rn no cap frfr (Critical Security Issue)" The worst part? We now have to explain to the CEO why "no cap frfr" appears in our Q3 security audit report. The absolute kicker? Our senior security engineer's official code review comment: "bestie... you snapped with this find ng" I can't tell if this is the peak or rock bottom of our engineering culture. But I do know our intern's getting a return offer, if only because I need to see what he'll do to our GraphQL documentation.

Content Shaundai Person shaundai Pro tip: use clickbait commit messages to get your teammates to review your code faster git commit -m "First she noticed a bug in production. What happens next will SHOCK vou!" 7:56 AM Dec 1, 2022 96 Retweets 10 Ouote Tweets 785 Likes

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of those cleaning apps! 💀 Here I am, a sophisticated developer who's been RELIGIOUSLY deleting every cleaning app that dares to appear on my system because they're just resource-hogging PARASITES that do NOTHING but give you the illusion of optimization while secretly plotting to steal your RAM! And now you're telling me some people actually USE them?! The BETRAYAL! The SCANDAL! It's like finding out people still use Internet Explorer BY CHOICE! Next thing you'll tell me is that someone actually reads those Terms of Service agreements! *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

The startup dev experience in one image! That moment when you realize you're not just writing code—you're also the DevOps engineer, QA tester, product manager, and somehow also handling customer support tickets. Nothing says "we're scaling fast" like having one developer frantically juggling the entire tech stack while the founders are busy pitching to VCs. The mythical "full-stack" developer finally revealed: it's just one sleep-deprived person with 17 different Slack channels open and an IV drip of espresso.

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