Move Fast, Break Things (And My Will To Live)

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Move Fast, Break Things (And My Will To Live)

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OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAUMA of hearing "Move Fast, Break Things" for the 9,467th time! 😤 That phrase - Facebook's infamous mantra turned startup gospel - is the battle cry of every hoodie-wearing CEO who thinks destroying production databases is somehow "innovative." Meanwhile, the poor souls in ops are having ACTUAL HEART PALPITATIONS every time some "visionary" decides to push untested code on Friday at 4:59pm. The face in this meme is LITERALLY every sysadmin's soul leaving their body after hearing some fresh-out-of-bootcamp developer cheerfully announce they're "disrupting" the perfectly functional authentication system. PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS!

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