Developers Conference

The brutal honesty here is chef's kiss. A keynote speaker throws out a hypothetical about trusting your dev team's code enough to literally bet your life on it, and out of an entire conference room full of developers, only ONE person raised their hand. And her reasoning? "That plane wouldn't get off the ground."

That's the level of confidence we all have in our own code. Not "it might crash," not "there could be bugs"—nope, straight up "it won't even compile." She's not worried about mid-flight failures; she knows it's DOA.

This is what years of production incidents, hotfixes at 3 AM, and "works on my machine" moments do to a person. You develop a healthy skepticism toward anything you or your team has touched. Trust the code? We don't even trust our commit messages.