I Should Have Listened...

I Should Have Listened...
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You know that senior dev who told you to read the documentation before running that script in production? Yeah, same energy here. Someone ignored a very clear PSA about not washing mouse pads, and now they're dealing with a washing machine full of disintegrated foam and rubber bits like it's a failed deployment that took down the entire infrastructure.

The beautiful part is the confidence with which they probably threw it in there thinking "how bad could it be?" Spoiler: it's always worse than you think. This is what happens when you skip the README and go straight to execution. The mousepad didn't just fail gracefully—it catastrophically exploded into a thousand tiny pieces, much like your codebase when you skip unit tests.

Pro tip: warnings exist for a reason. Whether it's "don't wash this" or "don't use eval()" or "don't push directly to main"—just don't.

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