When Your Hobby Code Becomes Business Critical

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When Your Hobby Code Becomes Business Critical

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That moment when your "just for fun" code suddenly becomes mission-critical! One day you're tinkering with a side project to sharpen your skills, and the next day some executive is presenting it in the quarterly roadmap. The facial expression says it all - the perfect mix of pride, terror, and "what have I gotten myself into?" Now you're frantically refactoring spaghetti code, adding proper error handling, and praying that your commented-out debug statements don't make it to production. Classic case of success-induced panic!

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